Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping recently issued an important instruction on building a higher-level Peaceful China, emphasizing sustained effort toward a more secure nation, a more orderly society, more effective governance, and greater satisfaction among the people, safeguarding the long-term steady progress of Chinese modernization. He stressed that building a higher-level Peaceful China bears on the flourishing of the cause, the people's beautiful life, and long-term social stability, calling it an important goal and safeguard of Chinese modernization. The article traces his earlier advocacy of "Safe Zhejiang" and his 2013 instruction to plan Peaceful China within the overall context of socialism with Chinese characteristics, as well as his February 2025 remarks at a Political Bureau group study session on implementing the holistic approach to national security. It cites declining criminal case filings and increased court and procuratorial work during the 14th Five-Year Plan period as evidence of historic accomplishments, and highlights his visits to grassroots mediation centers and his endorsement of the Fengqiao model. The piece concludes by noting that "Peaceful China" has become a national business card, citing a Malaysian traveler's praise for China's safety.
Summary: President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Rumen Radev on November 6, congratulating him on his election as President of the Republic of Bulgaria. Xi noted that Bulgaria was the second country in the world to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, with mutual respect, equality, and mutually beneficial and win-win outcomes as the distinctive foundation of bilateral relations. He highlighted the steady progress of exchanges and cooperation across all levels and fields, enriching the strategic partnership. Xi expressed his willingness to work with President Radev to build a more positive, pragmatic, and dynamic bilateral relationship for the benefit of both peoples.
Summary: The ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) was held in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, showcasing China's firm determination to proactively open its market to the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping was quoted as saying that China's expansion of high-level opening up will provide new opportunities for Africa's development and for China and Africa to jointly pursue the dream of modernization. The article highlights how zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries have benefited exhibitors like Ivorian cocoa producer Yennou Olga, while nearly 200 enterprises have attended all editions of the CIIE, with Medtronic's Geoff Martha calling China "one of the most dynamic markets in the global healthcare sector." The Innovation Incubation Zone brought together a record 633 sci-tech innovation projects, including debutants like Yiji China, which introduced early-stage projects from the UK, US, and France. The piece concludes that an open China, with its super-large market and continuous innovation, serves as a precious "ballast stone" for global development.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree promulgating the "Regulations on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine," effective January 1, 2027. The 32-article regulations define the scope of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, outline protection principles, and encourage government support and social participation. They mandate comprehensive excavation and organization of such knowledge through surveys, declarations, and a protection database, while supporting foreign exchanges and international dissemination. The regulations establish a protection list for representative and distinctive knowledge, promoting its inheritance, application, and innovation. Legal liability is specified for violations of the regulations.
Summary: The article reports on the passage of the Public Interest Litigation Law for Procuratorial Organs on November 6 at the Great Hall of the People, marking a landmark in China's rule-of-law construction. It traces the system's evolution over 12 years from pilot programs in 13 provinces to full legislative rollout, framed as a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. The piece highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's personal planning and deployment, including his reviews of pilot plans and his emphasis on improving the public interest litigation system. It details governance outcomes, such as the Wanfeng Lake special case and vessel pollution control in the Yangtze River, and notes that Chinese procuratorial organs have handled over 1.35 million public interest litigation cases, with over 90 percent being administrative cases. The article also mentions international engagement, including praise from BirdLife International and a delegation visit to Vietnam, presenting the system as a Chinese solution enriching global rule-of-law civilization.
Summary: China has intensified implementation of a new round of the action to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion jin, promoting stable and increased grain output. The photo shows agricultural technicians driving harvesters to harvest rice in high-standard farmland in Ganlin Town, Shengzhou City, Zhejiang Province, in early November. Photo by Zhang Yongtao (People's Visual).
Summary: In the first nine months, China's cumulative electricity consumption of the whole society reached 8,073.4 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%, according to the National Energy Administration. September saw consumption of 899.7 billion kilowatt-hours, up 1.2% year-on-year. By industry, primary industry consumption rose 4.1%, secondary industry 1.7% (with industrial consumption up 1.8% and high-tech and equipment manufacturing up 4.6%), and tertiary industry 4.9%. Notably, electricity consumption in the charging and battery-swapping service industry and the internet data service industry grew 57.0% and 35.4%, respectively.
Summary: The article presents a scientific guide for promoting Chinese modernization through the great unity of the Chinese nation. It provides a complete reading of Volumes I–V of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China*.
Summary: The article reflects on the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, emphasizing General Secretary Xi Jinping's repeated recounting of Long March stories to illustrate the "way to victory" rooted in Party leadership, revolutionary will, seeking truth from facts, and popular support. Xi highlighted loyalty through examples like the Red 34th Division's sacrifice and the "question on the grassland," underscoring the Party's absolute leadership over the military. He also stressed justice and firm revolutionary conviction, citing figures like Zhong Chibing and the "half belt" story, while linking these to modern military strengthening. The piece discusses truth-seeking via the Zunyi Conference and independence from dogmatism, and unity through people-centered narratives like the "half quilt," concluding that the new Long March requires upholding Party leadership and self-governance.
Summary: In Xinping'an Town, Da'an City, Jilin Province, contractor Xie Shuye, vice president of the Jilin Provincial Chamber of Commerce of Zhejiang, and local grower Kou Jinyou discussed the harvest in 300 hectares of paddy fields on saline-alkali land, which Kou manages technically. Da'an has over 1.4 million mu of developable saline-alkali land, and Xie sees it as an "enclave granary" linking Zhejiang's grain market gap with Jilin's production potential. Wang Changzhi of the Baicheng Soda Saline-Alkali Land Treatment Research Institute noted that improvement requires over 200,000 yuan per hectare, prompting an integrated "investment-financing-construction-operation-management" model with 30-year land transfer contracts. Xie plans to recoup over 50 million yuan in investment over 15 years, with high-yield plots expected to produce about 10,000 jin per hectare this year, and he aims for organic certification and a regional brand. A Da'an official said the government streamlined approvals and coordinated land transfer to encourage social capital, while Zhejiang entities have established 430,000 mu of grain bases in Jilin.
Summary: China has fully promoted "invoicing upon transaction" at refined oil retail gas stations starting November 1, issuing fully digitalized electronic invoices through the tax authority's Leqi platform. A State Taxation Administration official said the model binds the refueling transaction process, preventing gas stations from refusing, omitting, or issuing incorrect invoices. Li Linan, head of the Tax Collection and Administration Section of the Liaoyuan Municipal Tax Service, reminded consumers to prepare and verify invoice information in advance and to promptly save and verify invoices after receipt. Tax authorities have retained manual assistance services for elderly car owners, with station staff able to assist with inquiry, download, and printing. Xie Changcheng, deputy head of the Tax Collection and Administration Section of the Shuangyang District Tax Service of Changchun City, said the model compresses single-transaction invoicing time from 3-5 minutes to within 5 seconds, reducing staff workload and providing data for business analysis.
Summary: The ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) was held in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, showcasing China's firm determination to proactively open its market to the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping was quoted as saying that China's expansion of high-level opening up will provide new opportunities for Africa's development and for China and Africa to jointly pursue the dream of modernization. The article highlights how zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries have benefited exhibitors like Ivorian cocoa producer Yennou Olga, while nearly 200 enterprises have attended all editions of the CIIE, with Medtronic's Geoff Martha calling China "one of the most dynamic markets in the global healthcare sector." The Innovation Incubation Zone brought together a record 633 sci-tech innovation projects, including debutants like Yiji China, which introduced early-stage projects from the UK, US, and France. The piece concludes that an open China, with its super-large market and continuous innovation, serves as a precious "ballast stone" for global development.
Summary: The article highlights how the China International Import Expo serves as an open bridge, enabling global enterprises and products to access China's super-large market and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes through a mutual effort from both sides. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's pledge that China will provide all countries with more market, investment, and growth opportunities for common development. The piece emphasizes that the Expo's successive sessions have injected certainty into the world economy, showcasing China's responsibility as a major country. It notes that deepening interconnectedness among nations makes opening up and cooperation vital for international trade vitality and world economic recovery. Finally, it references the 15th Five-Year Plan's arrangements for expanding high-level opening up to create new opportunities for global common development.
Summary: The article highlights the "China opportunity" for Egyptian dates, focusing on Lina Farm in the Bahariya Oasis, which began supplying high-quality dates to China in 2023 and participated in the China International Import Expo (CIIE) for the first time in 2024. Export manager Ahmed Abdel-Hadi noted growing Chinese market demand and the CIIE's role in helping Egyptian enterprises understand Chinese consumer needs, particularly for A-grade premium Medjool dates. The article also features workers like Mohamed, who credited the farm's export growth with providing a guaranteed income, and factory manager Sayed, who discussed the use of AI grading technology. It mentions that China opened its market to Egyptian fresh dates in 2019 and has since implemented a zero-tariff measure for African countries, enhancing price competitiveness. Sherif El-Mawardy, former chairman of the Egyptian Authority for Exhibitions and Conferences, and Diaa, secretary-general of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, both praised the CIIE as a crucial platform for trade and economic cooperation.
Summary: The article, authored by the Chinese Ambassador to Canada, highlights the Asia-Pacific as a dynamic economic region and notes that China will host APEC in 2026 under the theme "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Prosperity." It references President Xi Jinping's January meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Carney, where consensus was reached on advancing a new-type strategic partnership. The piece urges both countries to uphold openness, reject protectionism and decoupling, and promote multilateralism and trade liberalization. It also calls for innovation-driven cooperation in areas like AI and clean energy, and expanded practical collaboration in traditional and emerging sectors. The ambassador concludes by expressing hope that the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen will deepen China-Canada ties and Asia-Pacific cooperation.
Summary: Wang Yu, General Manager of CSL Behring China, said in an exclusive interview that the CIIE builds a high-level cooperation bridge for synergy between global innovation resources and China's innovation ecosystem, helping the company accelerate R&D innovation and the landing of results. He noted that CSL Behring, a global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Melbourne, has been supplying human albumin to Chinese patients since 1986 and is accelerating the introduction of global innovative therapies to China. Wang Yu stated that China is transforming from a "global manufacturing base" into a "global source of innovation," prompting the company to deploy its "3N China Strategy" focused on new products, new cooperation, and new efficiency. He added that CSL Behring is cooperating with top domestic hospitals to use artificial intelligence to improve rare disease diagnosis rates, injecting strong momentum into global pharmaceutical technological innovation. At this year's CIIE, the company showcased seven debut products, and its headquarters management team visited China to research future R&D center layouts and increased investment.
Summary: Shenzhen, Guangdong, has deepened economic and trade exchanges with the Asia-Pacific region through "hard corridors plus soft connectivity." According to Shenzhen Customs, the value of Shenzhen's imports and exports with other APEC economies rose from 267.5 billion yuan in 1996 to 3.13 trillion yuan in 2025, an average annual growth of 8.5%, representing an increase of more than tenfold. In the first half of this year, Shenzhen's imports and exports with other APEC economies grew 33% year on year. The photo shows a cargo ship sailing toward Yantian Port in Shenzhen recently.
Summary: He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Chinese lead for the China-Canada Economic and Financial Strategic Dialogue, co-chaired the second dialogue in Vancouver on November 9 with Canadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland and Minister of International Trade Mary Ng. He Lifeng stated that under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, China-Canada relations have achieved a turnaround and bilateral exchanges have returned to the right track, and that China is willing to deepen cooperation in trade, finance, investment and other fields to promote the stable and healthy development of China-Canada economic relations. Freeland stated that Canada attaches great importance to its relations with China and is willing to strengthen policy communication and coordination, while Ng expressed hope to expand practical cooperation in the trade and economic field. During the dialogue, the two sides reached a series of achieving mutual benefits and win-win results outcomes and consensus. He Lifeng, Freeland, and Ng jointly attended the Canada-China Business Roundtable.
Summary: The 2026 World Cities Day Global Observance and the fourth Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities (Shanghai Award) ceremony, themed "Renewal and Empowerment, Livable Dreams," was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, with over 1,000 guests from more than 60 countries and 10 international organizations. Five cities won the award, including Addis Ababa, Santiago de Cali, Istanbul, Jingdezhen, and Katowice. Gökçer Okumuş, deputy director of the Urban Renewal Planning Bureau of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, described Istanbul's "build-transfer-rebuild" model for resettling residents and improving living quality. Fuzhou Mayor Wu Xiande said the city practices consulting the people about their needs, consulting the people for advice or solutions, and consulting the people about the results or effects, advancing renovation of old communities and public spaces. Other speakers, including Brunei's Minister of Development Juanda Abdul Rashid and UNESCAP Executive Secretary Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, emphasized people-centered urban development, housing for all, and international cooperation on resilient cities.
Summary: A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on November 9 that Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, special envoy of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban government, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will pay an official visit to China from November 10 to 13.
Summary: Slovak Foreign Minister Blanár will visit China from November 10 to 11 at the invitation of Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, as announced by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on November 9.
Summary: Central Publicity Group members delivered reports on the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the CMC organs, Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Guangdong, and Gansu on November 9. Zhang Shengmin, Chen Wenqing, Huang Kunming, and Zhou Xinqun each expounded the plenary's spirit, emphasizing the need to study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the "Decision" on persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. They attributed the new era's achievements in Party governance to the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Speakers urged firm upholding of the Two Establishments, resolute achievement of the Two Upholds, and implementation of the plenary's decisions across military, political-legal, and provincial contexts. Huang Kunming also engaged with teacher and student representatives at the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Party School, while Zhou Xinqun presented to teachers and students at Northwest Normal University.
Summary: The first report session on the whole-army study and implementation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing on November 9, with Zhang Shengmin, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, meeting the lecture group members. Zhang stressed that deeply studying and implementing the plenary session's spirit is a major political task, requiring deep study of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and Chairman Xi's important speech, focusing on the "Decision" on persisting in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. He emphasized doing the lecture work with a strong sense of responsibility, guiding officers and soldiers to firmly uphold the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, and obey the command of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi. The goal is to strive toward building a world-class military by 2027 and greet the 21st National Congress of the CPC with practical actions. The session was held via video and telephone conference, with lecture group members to conduct itinerant lectures throughout the army afterward.
Summary: The "International Forum on Mutual Learning Among Civilizations 2026," hosted by the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, opened on November 9, bringing together nearly 300 representatives from over 20 countries for nearly 40 lectures and exchanges. Sam Hou Fai, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, attended and delivered a speech, stating that Macao is an important node on the Maritime Silk Road and will further practice the values of peace, inclusiveness, openness, and sharing embodied in One Country, Two Systems. Li Guoqiang, a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the successful practice of One Country, Two Systems has safeguarded Macao's civilizational diversity. The forum included sub-forums and academic salons with themes such as "Civilizational Dialogue Across Mountains and Seas."
Summary: The television documentary film "Sun Yat-sen," jointly produced by China Media Group and the Publicity Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, began airing on the 8th on CCTV's Comprehensive Channel and Documentary Channel. The film takes as its theme Mr. Sun Yat-sen's lofty bearing of loving the motherland and dedicating himself to the motherland, and his broad feelings of the principle of the whole world being for all people and keeping the people close to his heart, with his revolutionary career as the main thread. It deeply explains Mr. Sun Yat-sen's patriotic thought, revolutionary will, and enterprising spirit. The film elaborates on its major practical significance and far-reaching historical significance for consolidating and developing the great unity of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, consolidating and developing the broadest patriotic united front, promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and advancing the great cause of national reunification.
Summary: In Xinjiang, populus euphratica trees take root in the vast land, growing or existing together with the oases, becoming a cultural tourism calling card with distinctive regional character that draws visitors from all over. The photo shows tourists on November 8 taking a boat ride to view the populus euphratica forest at the Hulu Island scenic area in Yuli County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. Photo by Han Jun (China Images).
Summary: The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recently co-hosted the first China-Africa Forum on Public Health in Guangzhou, Guangdong, with representatives from more than 20 African countries and regions, as well as international organizations including the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and the United Nations Population Fund. The forum's theme was "Jointly Building a New Defense Line for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control in China and Africa, and Advancing the Implementation of the China-Africa Health Partnership Action," with exchanges on global infectious disease challenges, disease surveillance, diagnostics and vaccine innovation, and special discussions on public health product accessibility and localized production in Africa, tropical diseases, tuberculosis, and scientific and technological innovation. During the forum, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and the United Nations Children's Fund jointly launched a public health technical assistance project and a South-South cooperation program. The Chinese and African centers for disease control jointly signed and released the "China-Africa Initiative on Jointly Building a New Defense Line for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control."
Summary: The 2026 Culture and Technology Industry Development Forum opened in Changsha, Hunan, on November 9, co-hosted by Science and Technology Daily, the Publicity Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province. The forum centers on technology empowering culture and industry driving development, focusing on the deep integration of culture and technology to comprehensively empower new quality productive forces in culture. It runs until November 10, featuring events such as the Malanshan Audio-Visual Equipment Expo opening and the Hunan Culture and Technology Investment, Financing, and Scenario Matching Conference.
Summary: The article reports on the passage of the Public Interest Litigation Law for Procuratorial Organs on November 6 at the Great Hall of the People, marking a landmark in China's rule-of-law construction. It traces the system's evolution over 12 years from pilot programs in 13 provinces to full legislative rollout, framed as a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. The piece highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's personal planning and deployment, including his reviews of pilot plans and his emphasis on improving the public interest litigation system. It details governance outcomes, such as the Wanfeng Lake special case and vessel pollution control in the Yangtze River, and notes that Chinese procuratorial organs have handled over 1.35 million public interest litigation cases, with over 90 percent being administrative cases. The article also mentions international engagement, including praise from BirdLife International and a delegation visit to Vietnam, presenting the system as a Chinese solution enriching global rule-of-law civilization.
Summary: The article argues that adhering to the Party's political construction as the guide is central to full and rigorous self-governance, promoting high-quality development through high-quality Party building, and injecting stability into a turbulent world. It cites examples such as grassroots Party building underpinning "Safe China," food and energy security, the rectification of illegal construction in the Qinling Mountains, and the Pinglu Canal project in Guangxi. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee adopted a decision on persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance, with "adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide" among its principles. General Secretary Xi Jinping is quoted on viewing problems from a political perspective, including his requirement to investigate the Qinling issue from the angle of political discipline. The piece concludes that this approach, including political supervision over the unified national market, enables Party members to uphold the Two Establishments and achieve the Two Upholds.
Summary: The article is a People's Commentary arguing that the campaign against gang crime and vice must now target new forms emerging in the service industry, such as online "disguised loans," soft-violence debt collection, and public-opinion blackmail. It emphasizes that solving the "difficulty of identification" is key, citing examples from Hubei Province and Jiaozuo City where authorities used data analysis and work guidelines to expose these crimes. Source supervision is also highlighted as a guarantee, with calls to consolidate platform responsibility and improve industry access mechanisms to block infiltration by gang forces. The piece cites Guilin City's investigation of a cross-regional public-opinion blackmail case and notes that in 2025, public security organs smashed 84 mafia-style organizations and 2,127 criminal gangs. The commentary concludes that regularizing the campaign will create a stable rule-of-law environment supporting high-quality economic development.
Summary: The article discusses the need to diversify metrics for evaluating scientific and technological journals, highlighting a new 2025 catalog compiled by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China that adds indicators like a publication index and a sentiment citation index alongside traditional ones such as impact factor. It critiques the mainstream international system, based on Clarivate and Elsevier databases, for failing to assess individual paper quality or distinguish citation attitudes, and notes growing international calls to reduce reliance on impact factor. The piece argues that new standards support China's goals of "establishing new standards" and "breaking the four onlys," while correcting language bias that undervalues non-English journals. It mentions efforts since 2020, including the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) Report, to promote "same-quality equivalence" between Chinese and foreign journals, with the 2025 catalog covering 55 countries and 23 languages. The article concludes that reforming evaluation systems is China's responsibility in international science governance, aiming to optimize the research environment and release innovation vitality.
Summary: The article highlights China's efforts to strengthen its rural talent workforce by cultivating high-quality farmers, with 613,600 trained last year. These farmers are described as the mainstay of agricultural production, and their development supports the high-quality growth of agriculture. The piece notes that many industrial leaders have emerged, with their demonstration effect strengthening. This provides a talent guarantee for advancing comprehensive rural revitalization and building a strong agricultural country. The report concludes with a poetic verse celebrating rural renewal and agricultural vigor.
Summary: The article from Hangzhou discusses how hospitals have added "electronic pennant banners" to their mini-programs, lowering the threshold for patients to express gratitude and reducing the cost and burden of presenting traditional banners. It notes this innovation allows distant, financially constrained, or socially anxious patients to show appreciation, and suggests hospitals could explore new ways of evaluating medical services based on these electronic banners. The piece concludes that improving services lies in listening to unspoken inconveniences, making the doctor-patient relationship warmer and more sincere. A second commentary from Gui'an New Area criticizes cadres who use phrases like "I can't do it" and "I don't understand" as a "shield" to shift blame and evade responsibility, arguing this stems from a lack of sense of responsibility rather than mere capability gaps. It urges cadres to adopt lifelong learning, face shortcomings squarely, and take on hard problems to win the satisfaction of the masses.
Summary: The People's Commentary responds to recent data showing Changsha's GDP grew only 1.6 percent year on year in the first three quarters of 2026, rejecting online claims that its entertainment culture and "traffic and attention" dragged down growth. It argues that scientific and technological innovation and culture, entertainment, and life-flavored industries are complementary, not opposites, citing Chengdu and Changzhou as examples where different tracks form a positive cycle. The commentary warns against binary, either-or thinking that pits "hardcore technology" against urban vitality, consumption scenarios against R&D investment, stressing that innovation grows from urban life and consumption scenarios. It advises localities to recognize their own advantages, use sci-tech innovation as empowerment, and strengthen strengths while shoring up weaknesses, with Changsha urged to accelerate emerging industries, advance traditional ones like construction machinery toward digitalization, and leverage its popularity to attract talent. The piece concludes that a city's hustle and bustle is also its competitiveness, and high-quality development requires overall planning, balanced consideration, and sustained, long-term effort.
Summary: The article argues that strengthening Party consciousness is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, as emphasized in the Decision adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. It outlines the importance of Party consciousness for maintaining the Party's advanced nature, consolidating unity, solving internal problems, and adapting to changes in the Party's ranks. The piece details six practical requirements—firming ideals, forging loyalty, cultivating feelings for the people, seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining integrity—and calls for implementing these across all aspects of Party governance. It stresses loyalty to the Party, the use of Xi Jinping Thought to unite hearts, nourishment from Party traditions and Chinese culture, tempering through struggle, and establishing clear orientations for identifying and valuing Party consciousness.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit in Zhejiang, showcasing new AI technologies such as office intelligent agents, smart glasses, and robots. It highlights Wuzhen's growth from 12 to over 1,200 digital economy enterprises and Zhejiang's efforts to build an AI innovation highland with a "data—models—scenario applications" cycle. The piece details open-source initiatives like the ModelScope Community, AI applications in industries such as woolen sweater quality inspection and the "Tongkun Brain," and people-oriented uses including meal delivery robots and medical AI agents. It cites targets for 2030, including digital economy value added reaching 60 percent of regional GDP and core AI industry revenue of 1.2 trillion yuan. The main responsible comrade of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee stated that Zhejiang is accelerating AI empowerment across industries and creating a first-class innovation ecosystem.
Summary: In Yueyaxia Village, Zizhong County, Sichuan, villager Zhang Hua collects express deliveries via drone, which now fly parcels directly to a village pickup point, replacing a previously arduous motorcycle trip to town. The change began in June, when JD Logistics, with support from the Zizhong County Development and Reform Bureau, purchased over 10 drones, established delivery stations in 6 townships, and opened 131 routes covering 131 administrative villages. Li Xin, head of JD Logistics' drone delivery operations in Zizhong County, said the service uses a "county-level business outlet + township-level delivery station + village-level pickup point" model, with JD hiring farmers like Zhang Hua to handle village-level collection. Drone delivery reaches villages in as little as 7 minutes, reducing pressure and costs for both villagers and couriers, and the county has coordinated village land for pickup points with JD providing monthly subsidies of a few hundred yuan to participants. The cumulative number of parcels delivered into villages by drone across the county has exceeded 4,000, and Sichuan Province is accelerating implementation of such drone delivery scenarios with fiscal subsidies.
Summary: British ornithologist Paul Holt was reported birdwatching at the Grand Canal Forest Park in Beijing, capturing birdsong as migratory birds began their southward journey. The article notes that China's inbound tourism is recovering, with 61.287 million foreigners entering from January to August 2026, up 19.5 percent year on year, and that "eco-tourism" such as birdwatching is rising among overseas visitors. Holt observed that China has more than twice as many bird species as Britain, citing the light-vented bulbul as evidence of improved urban ecology, while his wife Wang Qingyu highlighted convenient visa-free policies. The piece mentions that on August 20, the National Immigration Administration expanded the 240-hour visa-free transit policy to 57 countries. It concludes that wetland restoration and urban ecological spaces are turning birdwatching into a distinctive eco-cultural tourism product attracting foreign visitors.
Summary: The Supreme People's Procuratorate released typical cases on the fifth anniversary of the Personal Information Protection Law, highlighting new trends in crimes infringing on citizens' personal information, including cross-border chains, technical theft, and targeted schemes. Cases detailed criminal methods such as purchasing data from overseas "social engineering databases" and reselling it domestically, scraping public listings for sale abroad, and using script code to steal over one billion pieces of user account information. Procuratorates conducted substantive review of electronic data, guided investigations, and pursued punishment across entire criminal chains, including civil public interest lawsuits with discretionary damages. Specific groups targeted included rural elderly people defrauded of facial information for Alipay account real-name authentication, and celebrities whose flight information was leaked by an airline employee. The procuratorial organ reminded the public to enhance prevention awareness, question the purpose before authorizing facial recognition, and report information leaks to police.
Summary: Fuyao Group’s production base in Fuqing, Fujian, runs 24-hour lines producing curved electric dimming glass, with a newly launched 270-degree rear-cabin product achieving a dimming ratio of more than 40 times. The company has achieved 100 percent self-control in core technologies, resolving 14 "bottleneck" challenges, and reported 2025 revenue of 45.787 billion yuan with high-value-added products accounting for 54.20 percent. Cao Dewang, lifelong honorary chairman, recalled that in the early reform era almost all automotive glass in China was imported, and he co-founded the enterprise in 1987 to produce safety glass, maintaining a strategic focus solely on automotive glass. Fuyao has expanded globally with bases in 13 countries, overseas revenue at 46.25 percent of main business income, cumulative R&D investment exceeding 10 billion yuan from 2016 to 2025, and participation in 66 international and national standards. Cao said that as the leader, the company has the responsibility to continuously innovate and accelerate the iteration of new automotive glass products, and he highlighted his philanthropic efforts, including the Heren Charitable Foundation and Fuyao University of Science and Technology, which welcomed its first undergraduate cohort in September 2025.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security announced five new traffic management measures to benefit people and enterprises, effective nationwide from December 1. These include one-stop registration for imported passenger cars, exemption from paper business licenses for enterprises, online enterprise services, online temporary license plates for test vehicles, and a pilot "ask while handling" service via the traffic management assistant "Jiaoguan Xiao'an." The reforms break down departmental data barriers, allowing the public to complete imported car registration online through the "Jiaoguan 12123" APP without visiting service windows. Enterprise procedures are streamlined by applying electronic business license data from market supervision departments, with online registration for enterprise users on the same APP. The intelligent customer service pilot will launch in municipalities, provincial capitals, autonomous region capitals, and separately listed cities, as the APP's user base has surpassed 610 million.
Summary: A fire broke out at the Howard International Apartment building in Yingze District, Taiyuan, on November 8, with fire rescue forces arriving at the scene within five minutes and extinguishing open flames by 19:00. The fire caused 14 deaths, with 25 people hospitalized, including 9 in critical condition. Control measures have been taken against the management personnel of the property-owning unit and the persons in charge of the property management company. The cause of the accident is under investigation, and findings will be released to the public in accordance with laws and regulations.
Summary: The article marks the 15th anniversary of Chenggong District's transition from a county to a district of Kunming, highlighting its transformation from a traditional agricultural area into a modern science, education, and innovation city. It reports that the district's gross regional product quadrupled from 15.314 billion yuan in 2011 to 75.201 billion yuan by 2025, with major industrial clusters in digital economy, flowers, big health, and modern services. The piece also details infrastructure upgrades, including Kunming South Railway Station and the China-Laos Railway, which positioned Chenggong as a gateway to South and Southeast Asia. It notes improvements in people's livelihood, such as resettlement housing, education, healthcare, and green spaces, alongside the concentration of universities and talent. The article concludes by stating Chenggong will continue pursuing its goal of becoming a "Spring City Flower Capital Exhibition Zone and Modern Science, Education, and Innovation City" in its next phase of development.
Summary: The article reports on Lanzhou, Gansu, the only provincial capital through which the Yellow River flows, and its efforts to achieve high-quality development under the Strong Provincial Capital Action and the "1139" work deployment. Since 2021, the city's total economic output has crossed two 50-billion-yuan thresholds, with the growth rate rising from 0.8% in 2022 to 5.5% in 2025, and the contribution rate to the province's economic growth rising from 5.2% to 28%. The piece details progress in ecological protection, including a 100% water quality excellence rate for national- and provincial-controlled sections, and the strengthening of the "six major economies," with Lanzhou New Area maintaining double-digit growth for 13 consecutive quarters. It also highlights industrial upgrading, such as the "3+2" modern industrial system and the petrochemical industry's output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, alongside business environment reforms and livelihood improvements like opening "dead-end roads" and renovating old communities. The article concludes that Lanzhou will continue following the path of ecological priority and green development, deepening reform and opening up to refine livelihood guarantees.
Summary: At this year's CIIE, specialized, high-quality, and diversified services from production to daily life drew significant attention, with examples including Hexagon's precision solutions for embodied robots and Philips' intelligent angiography systems. Zhou Lin, General Manager of Hexagon's Strategy and Commercial Operations Business Group, said the CIIE is an open and sharing platform where cutting-edge technologies are exhibited, and local innovation originating from China is accelerating its output, feeding back into European and American markets. The Services Trade Exhibition Area established a joint display zone for foreign-related legal services for the first time, while consumer services like InterContinental Hotels Group's brand showcase attracted visitors. A Shandong–Multinational Corporations Producer Services conference saw 20 key cooperation projects signed with total investment of 4.3 billion yuan. Yang Haibo, co-founder and President of Lightwheel Intelligence, participating for the first time, said the CIIE platform helps attract customers and partners to contribute to fields like embodied intelligence.
Summary: The article highlights the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE), noting a record 4,142 overseas exhibitors and over 480 debut exhibits. It frames the expo's evolution as reflecting industrial upgrading, with exhibits increasingly showcasing new quality productive forces and fostering full industrial chain collaboration with Chinese enterprises. The piece emphasizes the CIIE's spillover effects, such as "exhibits becoming commodities, exhibitors becoming investors" and the expansion of trade platforms beyond the exhibition period. It also underscores China's commitment to openness, noting that American enterprises' exhibition area has ranked first for eight consecutive editions and that free booth space for least developed countries increased by 17 percent year-on-year. The article concludes that the CIIE embodies a vision of working together for the common good of the world, with China welcoming all countries to board its development "express train."
Summary: At this year's CIIE, the newly created Global National Brands Exhibition Zone features global quality goods that have passed "strict selection of local nationals." Linton Tweeds, a fabric supplier to European luxury brands founded in 1912, established an overseas "new product rolling zero-cut warehouse" in Shanghai in 2018, and its product specialist Lu Hui said China's apparel market is upgrading from "recognizing labels" to "recognizing fabrics and craftsmanship." Thai fragrance brand Pradara is making its debut at the 2025 CIIE to enter the Chinese mainland market, with its head of China operations noting that Chinese consumers value product quality, cultural stories, and how fragrances integrate into daily life. Pradara's "Moon Osmanthus" fragrance draws inspiration from Chinese mythology, and its experience validates the opportunities of "exporting to China." The zone connects global brands with China's super-sized market, which has become a broad platform for shared success.
Summary: The 9th China International Import Expo showcased a broad range of AI applications across industrial and daily-life settings, from Intel's green-energy storage-computing solution to a 6G terminal prototype. GE Aerospace debuted an AI-empowered borescope intelligent analysis system, developed by its China team, that detects subtle turbine blade anomalies and is undergoing pilot use at engine maintenance organizations. Germany's Kärcher presented its KIRA B 200 cleaning robot, while Sonova demonstrated the Phonak Kunlun AI hearing aid EON. Bosch and OSIM also exhibited AI-integrated home climate and wellness products, illustrating the growing diversity of AI application scenarios at the event.
Summary: At the ninth CIIE, Johnson Controls and Johnson & Johnson MedTech showcased innovations aimed at empowering industries and benefiting livelihoods. Visal Leng, President of Johnson Controls Asia Pacific, said the company has worked intensively in the Chinese market for over 30 years and will continue to transform Chinese innovation, manufacturing, and practices into global value. Johnson & Johnson MedTech signed an agreement with Jiangsu Changyida Medical Technology to deepen cooperation on the "Qiangyida PLUS" flow diversion stent, marking its journey from global debut to industrial practice. Zhang Jiuli, General Manager of Changyida, said the cooperation provides new impetus for transforming innovative products. Zhou Mintao, President of Johnson & Johnson MedTech China, noted the company brought over a hundred innovative achievements, including more than ten global or China premieres, and reached agreements with multiple Chinese enterprises to accelerate implementation.
Summary: At the ninth CIIE, the Sinar Mas Group's APP showcased its green production cycle, extending its paper industry chain upward with forest farms, pulp mills, and paper mills. A large number of innovative lifestyle products focused on green and low-carbon development, home-based health care for the elderly, and convenient travel made their collective debut. The silver-haired demographic actively engaged with products, putting forward diverse demands, reflecting the growing market potential of the silver economy. Zhang Jie, general manager of operations and management at Shanghai Health and Elderly Care Group, and Chen Luyi, vice president of public affairs for EssilorLuxottica China, highlighted the CIIE as a platform for listening to elderly needs and blending local care demands with global design concepts. Cai Xinhui, CEO of Ralph Lauren Asia Pacific, emphasized the CIIE's role in deepening communication with Chinese consumers and partners to understand their evolving needs.
Summary: The article highlights how the China International Import Expo's spillover effect is amplified through the Shanghai Hongqiao Imported Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center, which displays CIIE products year-round. Zhu Jing, deputy general manager of Hongqiao Pin Hui, explained the center's role in turning debut products into year-round retail goods via a "store in front, warehouse behind" model. Danone's Neocate water milk exemplifies the transition from exhibitor to investor, with Bruno Chevot, president of Danone Greater China, noting the CIIE serves as a channel for new products and that the product line has achieved localized production in Wuxi. Samyang Foods' fire chicken noodles, first brought to the CIIE in 2020, led to the company establishing a China regional headquarters in the Hongqiao International Central Business District. Shanghai has thus established a "6 days + 365 days" mechanism, with Hongqiao Pin Hui now featuring products from over 120 countries, 6,000 brands, and 85,000 product lines.
Summary: The article highlights the China International Import Expo (CIIE) as a platform for win-win cooperation, featuring exhibitors like Canada's Vitsi Shoe Care and New Zealand's Parakai Honey Limited, who reported rewarding first appearances and expanded market opportunities. The Canadian and New Zealand exhibition area was the largest in the event's history, with many enterprises converting products into orders. The CIIE set records with debut specialty agricultural products from South Africa, Australia, and Italy, supported by customs officials like Chang Zhemin, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Center Customs, who emphasized balancing national security with exhibitor support. The Asia-Africa Products Zone was upgraded to help African countries leverage zero tariffs, with a Rwandan exhibitor noting free booths reduced costs. China Baowu Steel Group showcased iron ore from Guinea's Simandou project, which has shipped over ten million tonnes to China and created jobs and infrastructure for local residents.
Summary: The article highlights China's growing role as a global demand hub, citing data from the "Export to China Capacity Development Report 2026" showing its share of global exports absorbed rising from 3.2 percent in 2000 to 9.2 percent in 2025. It quotes President Xi Jinping's statement that China is "accelerating the development of new quality productive forces and steadily expanding institutional opening-up" and willing to turn the Chinese market into "a market for the world and a market shared by all." The piece details strong import growth, with imports reaching 16.7 trillion yuan in the first nine months of this year, up 22.3 percent year on year, and features examples of multinational companies like Haleon, Syngenta, Pirelli, and Danfoss deepening their China operations. It also notes the 25th anniversary of China's WTO accession, with tariff levels falling from 15.3 percent to 7.3 percent, and the Ministry of Commerce's "Export to China" activities generating over 10 billion US dollars in on-site contract signings. The article concludes by framing the CIIE as demonstrating the "magnetic attraction" of the Chinese market and China's commitment to sharing development opportunities with the world.
Summary: At this year's CIIE, Wuliangye launched an interactive experience featuring a baijiu-based signature cocktail, "Splendid Heart," to showcase Chinese baijiu culture and innovation. The exhibition hall, themed around the Yangtze River, displayed brewing heritage through miniature models, a timeline, and products including the eighth-generation Wuliangye and CIIE commemorative wine. New tasting methods and custom badges blending Shanghai landmarks were used to make cultural exchange more vivid and participatory. The article notes that the CIIE serves as both a platform for economic and trade cooperation and a window for cultural exchange. Wuliangye plans to continue leveraging international platforms like the CIIE to expand global partnerships and promote its "harmonious coexistence and shared beauty" philosophy.
Summary: At this year's CIIE, Yingkang Life, the big-health ecological brand under Haier Group, showcased its AI-powered sample pre-processing workstation (DreamFlow·E), which autonomously designs and executes experimental workflows without step-by-step manual operation, according to Cao Jinghui, R&D director of digital-intelligent sample industry automation under Haier Biomedical. The device improves sample processing efficiency, reduces human-induced variability, and supports automated extraction of plasma and buffy coat for cohort studies and immunology research. Cao noted that several business visitors have signed letters of intent to purchase since the CIIE opened. Yingkang Life, attending the CIIE for seven consecutive years, brought over 40 innovative achievements, over 60 percent of which are first launches, and released its "1+3+X" AI strategic blueprint, including the life-and-health large model IncGPT and the AI agent "Xiaoying." Zhang Dandan, general manager of the Yingkang Life brand, said the CIIE is an important window to observe global trends and connect with ecosystem partners, and the company will continue integrating AI innovation into the global public health system.
Summary: At this year's China International Import Expo, the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum theme exhibition debuted, featuring immersive VR, domestic museum cultural and creative products, and inviting foreign natural history museum directors to Shanghai for dialogue. Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum in London, showcased dinosaur-related cultural and creative products mailed from the UK, while Lisa LeBlanc, Director of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, brought silk ties and scarves printed with the periodic table of elements. The foreign directors toured the exhibition, which spread scientific culture through public-friendly formats, and some remarked that the CIIE served as a cross-border "unboxing" experience. They noted that the cultural and creative products were merely a prelude to vast specimen collections and long-term research, building a platform for more international exchange and cooperation.
Summary: State Grid Shanghai Electric Power deployed its Panoramic Smart Power Supply Assurance System 9.0 and other technologies at the CIIE, enabling real-time monitoring, AI-driven fault assessment, and early warnings to prevent outages. Distributed acoustic sensing, trained on over 20 vibration types, identified unauthorized excavation near cables with over 95 percent accuracy, halting construction before damage occurred. A digital twin system monitored 60 switchgear cabinets and 10 transformer sets, while the smart operation and maintenance platform conducted intelligent inspections of key stations and lines. Engineer Zhang Yun and customer representative Zhao Fangfang highlighted faster repair workflows and the goal of acting ahead to secure an advantage. The venue procured over 15 million kWh of green electricity through cross-regional, Yangtze River Delta, and local markets, achieving a fully green-powered exhibition for the fourth consecutive year.
Summary: At the SPD Bank booth in the Service Trade Exhibition Area of this year's CIIE, visitors can interact with AI screens and receive CIIE badges, with the "Come to SPD" IP images reflecting innovative content. The bank has iterated its CIIE comprehensive financial service plan to version 9.0, covering cross-border services for corporate and individual clients, as well as green finance, technology finance, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The booth was expanded and upgraded, featuring a customer product display area and hosting 15 "Cross-Border Peer Exchange" events on themes such as free trade finance and the Greater Bay Area. SPD Bank is exploring central bank digital currency in cross-border payments, launching offshore financial innovation pilots and expanding foreign card acceptance in Shanghai, with 24-hour foreign currency exchange services near airports and hotels. Having served the CIIE for nine consecutive years since 2018, SPD Bank will support China's high-level opening up, the Belt and Road Initiative, and Shanghai's "five centers" development.
Summary: The article argues that ethnic affairs work is vital to national unity and stability, drawing on Volumes I–V of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China* to outline the evolution of the "correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics" and the "correct view of the history of the Chinese nation." It emphasizes forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line of Party ethnic work, promoting exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups, and advancing the building of the community of the Chinese nation. The piece stresses law-based governance of ethnic affairs, highlighting the newly implemented Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress as a milestone for legal guarantees. It calls for using legal means to counter separatism and external interference, and concludes that united struggle by all ethnic groups is essential to promoting Chinese modernization. The author is a researcher at the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Summary: The article argues that the Communist Party of China's fine qualities are rooted in fine traditional Chinese culture and represent an organic combination of Marxist party-building theory and that culture. It details how qualities such as unswervingly pursuing truth, taking deep root among the people, and daring to be good at struggle continue traditional concepts like attaining knowledge through the investigation of things and the people being the foundation of the state. The piece cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on continuously carrying forward the Party's fine qualities. It concludes that grasping this inheritance and transformation enables a deeper understanding of why the CPC can succeed. The authors are specially appointed researchers of the Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Summary: The article argues that firm political loyalty is the ideological foundation for leading cadres to shoulder the responsibility of governing the Party and managing Party affairs. It states that political loyalty tempers conviction, nurtures profound feelings for the Party and the people, and strengthens identification, guiding cadres to internalize this responsibility as self-cultivation and an eternal mission. The piece emphasizes that loyalty impels cadres to unify strict self-discipline with strict management of subordinates, safeguarding the Party's advanced nature and purity. It is excerpted from *Guangming Daily*, October 20, 2026, by author Chen Yiping.
Summary: The article announces the upcoming ski season at Changbai Mountain Huamei Resort, with trial operations starting November 10 and official slope opening on November 14, subject to weather conditions. Fourteen extra-wide ski runs will open in batches, alongside a new fun terrain park, upgraded ski teaching, and international equipment brands such as Salomon and Atomic. The Huamei Mountain-Sea Fantasy Night will launch in December, featuring music parties, float parades, molten iron flower displays, and aerial performances, with a new volcanic hot spring and specialty programs like powered paragliding and deep-snow hiking. Pre-sales have begun for five hotels, with a single room card unlocking access to skiing, snow play, and hot springs. The resort frames these upgrades as part of Jilin Province's push to build a strong ice-and-snow tourism province and contribute to Northeast China's revitalization.
Summary: President Xi Jinping promulgated the Public Interest Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China for Procuratorial Organs, adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on November 6, 2026, effective January 1, 2027. The law empowers People's Procuratorates to file administrative public interest lawsuits against administrative organs that violate or fail to exercise their powers in fields including ecological protection, food and drug safety, and cultural heritage, and civil suits for acts harming national or public interests. It establishes procedures for case filing, investigation, procuratorial recommendations, rectification time limits, and lawsuit filing, with jurisdiction vested in procuratorates and primary courts at the location of the administrative organ or infringing act. The law details adjudication rules, including burden of proof on the procuratorate, mediation with public announcement, appeals, and execution measures such as third-party performance and publication of judgments. It also allows procuratorates to file public interest lawsuits against foreign organizations and individuals harming China's national interests or public interest.
Summary: The 2026 China Aviation Industry Conference and Nanchang Aviation Industry Expo were held in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province from October 31 to November 4, attracting over 800 representatives and setting new records in exhibition area, exhibitors, exhibits, concurrent events, and visits. The Large Aircraft Derivative Technology Innovation Center was unveiled, and multiple aviation industry projects reached cooperation intentions. The expo featured three themed pavilions on aviation manufacturing, commercial space, and the low-altitude economy, displaying achievements across the aerospace industry chain. The conference released the "Nanchang Aviation Industry Patent Navigation Report" and launched the "Hongcheng Eagle Eye" low-altitude integrated service platform, while matchmaking meetings facilitated multiple cooperation projects. Nanchang Aviation City, relying on Yaohu Airport and the Jiangxi Aircraft Airworthiness Certification Center, aims to build a nationally important aviation industry highland by strengthening the "large aircraft + low-altitude economy."
Summary: The 15th Global Smart City Expo in Barcelona showcased over 1,200 enterprises from 140 countries, with Chinese firms highlighting AI, 5G, IoT, and green technologies. The article notes that smart city construction is moving toward comprehensive development emphasizing system coordination and public service needs, citing award-winning projects in Romania, Spain, and Brazil. Bilel Jamoussi of the International Telecommunication Union stressed the need for data interoperability and breaking down data silos. Chinese enterprises, including Shenzhen Sinoroad and Dongguan Dianwei, contributed solutions such as a smart pedestrian crossing system in Saudi Arabia and precision electronic connectors, with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade receiving the Best Organization Award. The article also mentions a cooperation memorandum between Xi'an and Valencia, Spain, and quotes Barcelona officials expressing interest in strengthening Spain-China ties in trade, industry, ports, and tourism.
Summary: At the 2026 Global Governance Forum (Xiong'an), China released "China's Position on Strengthening Outer Space Governance," systematically elaborating its stance on outer space governance for the first time. The position paper advocates equal weight for outer space development and security, and stability and sustainability, opposing actions that harm other countries' sovereignty and security interests in outer space. The article traces the historical origins of "peaceful use of outer space" from the 1957 Sputnik launch to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, noting that an unnamed individual country—the first to propose the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space—has now become the first to deploy weapons in space, breaking the taboo against such actions. China emphasizes that strengthening global outer space governance is an urgent issue and a common responsibility of all countries, promoting a community with a shared future for mankind in the outer space domain.
Summary: Fudian Bank, a Yunnan Province-owned city commercial bank founded in 1912, is working to serve the province's border regions and ethnic communities through its "Finance 1+7" creation model and "Centennial Fudian Pomegranate Red" brand. The bank has opened 22 border-area branches and 328 inclusive financial service stations, and its overseas subsidiary Lao-China Bank opened a Luang Prabang branch in March 2026 to expand cross-border services. It has issued loans such as a 2.09 million yuan loan to a cultural tourism enterprise at the Mohan port and a 40,000 yuan border resident credit loan at Guanlei port, while its Dehong branch has disbursed over 30 billion yuan over 16 years. The bank divides its credit into resource, park, and port lines, with loan balances of 39.5 billion, 13.4 billion, and 25 billion yuan respectively as of the end of June. As of the end of September 2026, it employs 1,046 ethnic minority staff, and it contributes to Yunnan's construction of a national demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress.
Summary: The Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province is pursuing a path of high-quality development by leveraging its mineral resources, tourism, and ethnic culture. Jin Bo, Deputy Director of the Industry and Information Technology Bureau of the Qianxinan Prefecture, noted that the region is utilizing resource advantages to develop new-type industries, including an industrial cluster for new energy battery materials. Liu Yao, Deputy Director of the Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau of the Qianxinan Prefecture, stated that the prefecture is upgrading scenic areas and business forms to promote culture and tourism. Additionally, Long Hanyong, Deputy Director of the Forestry Bureau of the Qianxinan Prefecture, emphasized improving mechanisms to monetize ecological products through forestry carbon tickets. Qiu Zhenguo, Secretary of the Qianxinan Prefecture Party Committee, concluded that the prefecture must accelerate the building of a modern industrial system during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Summary: The article reports on a series of outdoor sports events and the 2026 International Conference on Mountain Tourism and Outdoor Sports held in Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, highlighting the region's integrated development of culture, sports, and tourism. Wang Wenbo, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Qianxinan Prefecture Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, said the prefecture's karst peak forests, canyon bridges, and distinctive caves support multi-tiered mountain sports products, with homestays serving as a key vehicle for integrating mountain residency, wellness, study tourism, and ethnic culture. Liu Jie, Vice Governor of the Qianxinan Prefecture People's Government, said the prefecture is leveraging the conference platform to convert mountain resources and competition traffic into tourism consumption and industrial development momentum. The article notes that from January to September 2026, overnight visitors received by commercial accommodation establishments increased by 17.5 percent compared with 2025, with out-of-province overnight visitors up 43.54 percent. It also mentions the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge tourism integration project, which has attracted 3.65 million tourist visits since opening.
Summary: The Sujiatun Wind Farm in Dachang Town, Qinglong County, is located in the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province, transmitting green energy for the West-to-East Power Transmission project. The photo shows a corner of the wind farm. Photo by Lu Guanwen.
Summary: The song-and-dance drama *Jin·Lan* from Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture was performed at the Beijing Cultural Palace of Nationalities as the only Guizhou work selected for the 7th National Minority Arts Festival, bringing over ten intangible cultural heritage items to the stage with farmers, embroiderers, and folk artists among the cast. Chief director Wei Qijun said the performers are not acting but restoring the true colors of rural life, with the masses as protagonists and the "flavor of the soil" radiating artistic charm. The prefecture has built the Guizhou "Village Dance" cultural brand by revitalizing folk dance resources, encouraging villagers to write, direct, and perform their own works that incorporate themes like rural revitalization and respect for elders. Since its launch last December, the prefecture has held over 400 "Village Dance" events with more than 2 million participant-visits, bringing intangible heritage dances into squares, campuses, and scenic areas. Liu Yao, deputy director of the Qianxinan Prefecture Culture, Sports, Radio, Television, and Tourism Bureau, said the initiative has been integrated into golden tourist routes such as Wanfenglin to add cultural depth to tourism.
Summary: The article reports on the ecological transformation of Donghu Wetland Park in Xingren City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, where resident Ao Chao now visits daily after years of pollution made the lake unbearable. Xingren City responded by relocating lakeside households, building a 5,000-ton sewage treatment plant, and laying a complete rainwater and sewage pipe network, achieving full collection and treatment of sewage. The city then added waterside platforms, leisure trails, and cultural landscape belts, turning Donghu into a "city reception hall" and a 2025 provincial-level excellent case of beautiful and happy rivers and lakes. Qianxinan Prefecture, an ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Pearl River, has advanced green transformation, reaching a forest coverage rate of 63.19% by the end of 2025, with stable air quality and 100% excellent surface water quality at national and provincial monitoring sections. Zhao Long, director of the Qianxinan Prefecture Ecological Environment Bureau, said the prefecture will deepen pollution control, coordinate carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and use the "green content" of the environment to enhance the "gold content" of development.
Summary: The article highlights how Xingyi City in the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture integrates eight scenic areas, including Wanfeng Forest and Maling River Gorge, within a 25-kilometer radius, forming a "one city, eight scenic spots" pattern. It describes how urban renewal, such as the upgrade of the Dafofang historical district, blends modern design with local everyday life, attracting tourists like Chen Hansheng from Guangxi who praised the old city's unique flavor. Villager Luo Yiping noted near-full homestay bookings during peak season with annual income of about 200,000 yuan, while Fujian native Su Qiuyan, manager of the "Youshange" homestay, brought indigo dyeing and tea art experiences, with many guests staying two to three months. Transportation improvements, including the Panxing high-speed railway and Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, created a 200-kilometer golden tourism belt, and during the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, homestay bookings in the prefecture ranked among the highest nationally. Wang Na, member of the Standing Committee of the Xingyi Municipal Party Committee, said city-scenery integration taps into local everyday life, making life itself a tourism product, as the city improves roads, parking, and leisure spaces to accommodate growing tourist flows.
Summary: Dongfeng Yipai has officially launched the Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition, a new model targeting the 150,000-yuan-class pure electric large six-seat market. The vehicle features Dongfeng's self-developed Tianyuan intelligent solution, which includes an intelligent driving system built on the Horizon J6M platform and a dual-AI cabin equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon SA8295P chip. Designed for multi-member families, the model comes standard with CATL battery cells and utilizes an 800V high-voltage platform for ultra-fast charging. This launch completes a dual-intelligent-version product layout for the Yipai M8 series, offering users a choice between the Tianyuan intelligent solution and Huawei's Qiankun intelligent solution.
Summary: The article highlights China's efforts to deepen vocational education exchanges and cooperation amid a new round of scientific and technological revolution, showcasing international students from Cambodia, Malaysia, and Laos gaining practical skills in Chinese institutions. Cambodian student Namei, studying at Shandong Vocational College of Light Industry, improved her employability through a "Chinese language + vocational skills" model and a tripartite "college + enterprise + overseas college" program with Luthai Group and Svay Rieng University. Malaysian student Jin Yeshang, at Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, learned cross-border e-commerce through simulated operations and aims to bridge trade between China and Southeast Asia. Lao student Li Ping, at Xi'an Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute, mastered drone technology through order-based training and hopes to apply it to her hometown's development. The piece underscores China's growing role in cultivating skilled talent for global industries through international vocational education partnerships.
Summary: The article highlights China's promotion of international vocational education cooperation, citing President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 2022 World Conference on the Development of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, which called for mutual learning and joint implementation of the Global Development Initiative. It details China's cooperation with over 80 countries and regions on more than 500 projects, including the Luban Workshop, which has trained over 30,000 degree-seeking students and provided skills training for more than 160,000 person-times. The piece describes vocational education as building bridges of skills, development, and friendship, with Chinese teachers overseas fostering people-to-people connectivity. It notes the 2026 conference's conclusion, where 45 countries released the *World Framework for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Standards* (the *Beijing Agreement*), the first international vocational education standard led by China. The author, Director-General of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, concludes that China is contributing to a community with a shared future for mankind through such cooperation.
Summary: The "Model Third Company" of a brigade under the 79th Group Army is honoring its historical legacy, which includes the Red Army's Four Crossings of the Chishui River and the Battle of Tucheng. Political instructor Li Jialin and company commander Xu Shihao lead the unit in maintaining this "Red" heritage through storytelling, ceremonial bugle handovers, and rigorous combat training. The company is currently focusing on modernizing its capabilities by exploring modular operations and integrating unmanned equipment, such as drones, into its tactical training. Officers and soldiers, including Deputy Squad Leader Ma Ka Xiaolin and Platoon Leader Liao Changdeng, are reported to be striving for excellence to uphold the unit's historical reputation for flexible maneuver and surprise attacks.
Summary: The article reports new progress in identifying remains of Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs returned from the Republic of Korea, with eight martyrs—Shi Zhicheng, Xia Xiaolong, Zhang Zhenfa, Ren Dianyi, Jiao Dezheng, Xia Zongzhi, Chen Zhiguo, and Zhang Changxing—now confirmed. Since 2014, China has repatriated 1,023 sets of remains in 13 batches and identified 44 martyrs, overcoming difficulties in DNA extraction and kinship analysis. The author, who attended welcome ceremonies in Shenyang, Liaoning, describes public tributes and notes that young people are increasingly honoring martyrs, including college students in Nanjing restoring portraits and veteran Nan Qixiang sounding his bugle. The piece emphasizes that the martyrs' sacrifices secured today's prosperous China and that continuing to identify and honor them is the best consolation.
Summary: A pilot from a Western Theater Command Air Force aviation unit recounts his experience converting to a new aircraft and developing tactical employment methods through trial and error. He describes marking unverified assumptions with question marks on a mind map, testing them through repeated flights, and filling in answers based on flight data. He notes that experience from older aircraft types could be useful but also misleading, and that he collaborated with pilots from brother units and military research institutes to revise tactics. The database they built later won an award in the unit's evaluation. He reflects on giving a national defense class to children, who called him "Pilot Uncle," and concludes that as aircraft, adversaries, and people change, new question marks continue to require testing in the sky.
Summary: The article reports on Yangzhou's disciplinary inspection and supervisory commissions coordinating market supervision and public security departments to investigate a delivery-only restaurant using a forged license at Runyang Square in Hanjiang District, uncovering a chain of fake certificate production and sales. The investigation, prompted by delivery riders' complaints, led to the arrest of 13 suspects, seizure of 135 forged certificates, and dismantling of 3 criminal gangs, with involved delivery business turnover exceeding 10 million yuan. Zhou Yong, Secretary of the Hanjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection, emphasized that supervision promotes departmental responsibility and coordination rather than replacing law enforcement. The rectification extended to whole-process supervision, including renovating delivery-only restaurant areas, connecting 5,064 online catering merchants to "Internet + AI supervision," and raising public satisfaction with online catering food safety from 72.33% to 93.87%. A linked report notes Jiangsu province's broader "Hundred-Day Offensive" campaign, which investigated 100 criminal cases involving forged health certificates, arrested 420 people, and took 36,000 non-compliant merchants offline.
Summary: This article introduces a new series of discussions focused on cultivating Party spirit, which is described as the cornerstone for Party members and officials. The text argues that ideals and convictions serve as the "calcium" of the spirit, providing the strength necessary for unyielding struggle and national service. To prevent the erosion of fighting spirit during prolonged periods of peace and stability, the article emphasizes that strengthening these convictions must be done regularly and continuously through theoretical study and practical application. It specifically highlights the necessity of using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and forge the spirit. Finally, the article asserts that ideals and convictions are tempered through the practice of overcoming difficult problems and challenges, such as the construction of the Pinglu Canal.
Summary: The article reports on a case in Fengyang County, Anhui Province, where Wang, former head of the Agricultural Machinery Management Service Station in Zongpu Township, defrauded agricultural machinery purchase subsidies by operating a dealership behind the scenes and organizing fictitious purchases. Wang exploited his position to obtain applicant lists in advance, staged compliant on-site verification, and pocketed the subsidies. He was dismissed from public office, and his suspected criminal conduct was referred to the procuratorial organ for legal review and prosecution. The discipline enforcers' commentary calls for stricter enforcement of regulations prohibiting public officials from engaging in related business activities and for measures such as independent third-party verification and technology-empowered supervision to ensure policies benefiting farmers truly take effect.
Summary: The Xiaoheyan Morning Market in Shenhe District, Shenyang, Liaoning, has established Shenyang's first morning market Party branch to address new challenges from its online popularity, including luggage storage, shortchanging complaints, and vendor frictions. Tian Meng, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wanlian Subdistrict, noted the market's transformation into a tourist check-in spot with daily customer volume exceeding ten thousand. The Party branch, led by Hu Xuesong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xiannongtan Community, implemented a handling mechanism of '1-hour response, 24-hour processing, and feedback within 3 days,' boosting satisfaction with demand handling by nearly 30%. Liu Jun, Director of the Wanlian Subdistrict Administrative Office, reported that over ten thousand customers have re-weighed purchases with no shortchanging found, and the branch evaluates 'Model Vendors Learning from Lei Feng' quarterly. Xia Wei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shenhe District Party Committee and Head of the Organization Department, said the branch has developed one Party member, cultivated three applicants, and received 35 applications from vendors.
Summary: The article reflects on Lu Xun's enduring relevance as commemorations mark the 145th anniversary of his birth and 90th of his death, including events like the Lu Xun Literary Editions Museum opening in Shaoxing and the "Lu Xun and Fine Arts" exhibition at the National Art Museum of China. It argues that while young people often quote Lu Xun, citing him cannot replace reading him, and revisiting his thought and spirit is essential for forging literary and artistic classics for the era. Drawing on events from 1936, the piece highlights Lu Xun's support for woodcut art due to its mass character, his praise for Bai Mang's "The Child's Pagoda" as "the whistling arrow in the forest," and his preference for essays over polished works, emphasizing the need for literature that engages closely with reality. It notes that this year's Lu Xun Literature Prize Poetry Prize went to delivery rider poet Wang Jibing, echoing Lu Xun's vision of writing from "another world." The article concludes that Lu Xun, as a frame of reference, still poses questions about being present in one's era and forging new literary forms, with answers lying in the pen, creation, and new paths trodden underfoot.
Summary: The article analyzes the box-office failure of *Sanxingdui: Future Past*, the first domestic AI theatrical film, attributing audience criticism to its visibly AI-generated look and lack of human touch. It argues that since AI spectacle is now freely available on phones, cinemas must offer a unique, non-pausable narrative experience, which the film failed to provide by applying short-drama logic and prioritizing images over story. The deeper issue is that AI's rapid iteration outpaced the film's production, raising audience aesthetic thresholds and making technological spectacle commonplace, so the true ceiling of AI films lies in human script, performance, emotion, and judgment. The article notes this is not an isolated case among "first" AIGC works this year, but concludes that individual failures do not negate the path of AI filmmaking, which will ultimately expand the audiovisual industry's capacity. It ends by urging that AI serve as a paintbrush for imagination, not a gimmick masking hollow content, with the only way forward being to move people through emotion.
Summary: The article discusses the legal-industry drama *Flourishing and Prospering*, which departs from the elite skyscraper setting of typical industry dramas by centering on a "grassroots law firm" above a public bathhouse in the Northeast. The protagonist, Xiao Longnü, handles small cases for ordinary people, embodying a down-to-earth yet righteous character that contrasts with the polished protagonists of previous legal dramas. The series integrates regional flavor and comedic elements, drawing on the old industrial base's dialect and folk customs, which some viewers see as the "Northeast comedy universe" entering the industry-drama track. The author argues that this "downward shift" of industry dramas is an inevitable genre innovation, citing *Small Town Remedies* as another example of portraying grassroots professionals in non-first-tier cities. The piece concludes that adding warmth and depth from real life to industry stories is a promising creative path.
Summary: The article discusses the enduring legacy and innovative revival of the Hebei Clapper Opera classic *Zhong Kui*, first adapted by playwright Fang Chen in the 1980s and performed by Pei Yanling. The Hebei Hebei Clapper Opera Theater has crafted an innovative version that preserves the spiritual core while restructuring stage rhythm and employing modern audiovisual means, featuring four Plum Blossom Award winners. The cast includes Wu Guiyun and Hao Shichao as Zhong Kui, Sun Na as Zhong Meiying, and Qiu Ruide as Xu Boqun, with the ensemble showcasing martial arts prowess. The new version retains core musical passages while moderately integrating modern stage technology, such as Wuqiang New Year print imagery, special effects, and dynamic projection, to supplement fantastical scenes. The article concludes that the innovative version respects the performance legacy while employing contemporary theatrical aesthetics, allowing the classic to continue resonating with today's audiences.
Summary: The article discusses the documentary *Tang Shouqian 1911*, which uses AIGC to recreate historical scenes from the 1911 Revolution in Hangzhou, including Tang Shouqian's role in peacefully resolving the Banner garrison issue. The film builds its narrative through historical materials, expert interpretation, and live-action filming, with AI limited to recreating scenes that cannot be filmed live. It emphasizes that AI serves only as an auxiliary tool, while rigorous expression and reverence for history are essential to earning audience trust. The piece concludes that historical materials remain the source of truth in documentary creation.
Summary: At the 2026 China Radio and Television Excellent Works Creation Conference TV Series (Web Series) Forum, industry insiders discussed building a "creation-friendly ecosystem" for the industry's high-quality development. Hou Hongliang said new technologies allow immature ideas to be tested and give good works longer life, predicting AI long dramas and interactive forms will emerge. Wang Xiaohui argued the revenue-sharing model restructures risk-reward and will unleash original creativity through mid-length and AI dramas. Ren Shuangyou emphasized drawing people into the creative atmosphere so every link brings out its best, while Liang Zhenhua called for distinguishing opinions, problems, emotions, and malicious manipulation in public-opinion governance. Chen Shuze said AIGC means grasping "spectacle" and "empathy," and Liu Tao urged systematic support for going global, including internationalized talent cultivation and aligning production standards with overseas aesthetic habits.
By: 本报记者 张天培
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction on building a higher-level Peaceful China, emphasizing: "Continue to exert sustained effort toward a more secure nation, a more orderly society, more effective governance, and greater satisfaction among the people, and safeguard the achieving long-term steady progress (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady; reach, far") of Chinese modernization through the building of a higher-level Peaceful China."
Peace and security are the foundation of development and the aspiration of the people.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Building a higher-level Peaceful China bears on the flourishing of our cause, bears on the people's beautiful life, and bears on the long-term social stability of the nation.It is an important goal of Chinese modernization and also an important safeguard."
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan lists "further consolidation of the national security shield" as one of the main goals of economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, proposes "solid progress in building a higher-level Peaceful China," and makes arrangements around "advancing the modernization of the national security system and capacity, and building a higher-level Peaceful China."
For every household, the word "peace" is worth a thousand pieces of gold; for leading officials, the responsibility for peace weighs ten thousand jun.
"Guard the people's happiness, protect the peace of the family and the nation." In September this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to all the members of the "Zhangzhou 110" in Fujian Province, and gave earnest entrustment to the broad ranks of public security officers.
When working in Fujian, Comrade Xi Jinping had already gone to Zhangzhou to inspect on the ground the 110 alarm reporting service work and team building. Decades later, "Zhangzhou 110" has become a golden signboard of public security organs in guarding the safety of the people.
When working in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping put forward the concept of building a "Safe Zhejiang," and Zhejiang became the first province to propose and comprehensively deploy the strategy of building "Greater Safety."
The development of thought is always continuous and coherent.
In 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction on building a Peaceful China: "Plan the building of a Peaceful China within the overall context of the development of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "ensure that the people live in peace and work happily, that society is stable and orderly, and that the nation enjoys long-term social stability."
In February 2025, when presiding over the 19th group study session of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must unswervingly implement the holistic approach to national security, continue to exert sustained effort toward a more secure nation, a more orderly society, more effective governance, and greater satisfaction among the people, and push the building of a Peaceful China to a higher level."
Security, stability, peaceful dwelling... In mapping out the building of a Peaceful China, General Secretary Xi Jinping's words hit the nail on the head and were forceful and emphatic speech (掷地有声, zhi di you sheng - "throw, ground, have, sound").
He made important instructions on the work of cracking down on and governing telecom and online fraud crimes, requiring "resolutely curbing the frequent and high-incidence trend of such crimes"; regarding the maintenance of public safety, he emphasized "whatever problem is prominent, concentrate forces to solve that problem."
One by one, item by item, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the people, advancing solidly, without any ambiguity.
Peace is the lifeline of the people's happiness. With economic and social development, the people's needs for peace and security are increasingly enriched. Building a Peaceful China means realizing, safeguarding, and developing the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, creating conditions for the overall security of the nation by ensuring the security of each locality, each domain, and each industry, and promptly and effectively resolving one security problem after another to lay a solid foundation for the long-term social stability of the nation.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the number of criminal case filings nationwide by public security organs dropped significantly; among them, in 2025, the number of filings fell by 12.8 percent year-on-year. People's courts concluded 23.466 million first-instance cases involving livelihood matters such as education, employment, elderly care, and medical care. Procuratorial organs handled a total of 348,000 public interest litigation cases in the field of the ecological environment. Society has become more harmonious and stable, and the quality of peace has become more solid.
The building of a Peaceful China is for the people and also relies on the people.
How can channels for the masses to express their demands be made smoother, and how can the masses feel safer and happier?
This question is one that General Secretary Xi Jinping has been constantly keeping something in mind (念兹在兹, nian zi zai zi - "think, this, exist, this").
On March 30, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Social Contradiction and Dispute Mediation and Resolution Center in Anji County, Zhejiang Province, to learn about the operation of the model of one-stop reception, package mediation, and full-chain resolution of contradictions and disputes among the masses.
"Let ordinary people have a place to 'seek an explanation' when they encounter problems, and truly resolve contradictions in their budding state and dissolve them at the grassroots level." General Secretary Xi Jinping earnestly entrusted.
Social governance is connected on one end to the long-term social stability of the nation and society, and on the other end to the livelihood and warmth of every household. It is a key link in building a higher-level Peaceful China.
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has on many occasions spoken of the need to uphold and develop the Fengqiao model in the new era, urging that "small matters do not leave the village, major matters do not leave the town, and contradictions are not handed upward," pointing the way for improving the social governance system and enhancing the effectiveness of grassroots governance.
"Resolve well the major and minor matters around the people, so that everyone has more smiles and warmer hearts" — this is a concern never forgotten, and also a sustained, long-term effort carried out with determination.
Time is the witness, and the people are the graders. The building of a Peaceful China has achieved historic accomplishments, national security has been comprehensively strengthened, and the safeguards for development and security have become more robust.
At the Baiyun Border Inspection Station under the Guangzhou General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection, a Malaysian traveler sighed with admiration to the staff about China's public security before leaving the country: "China is now very safe, and Chinese people are now very happy."
"Peaceful China" has become a dazzling "national business card."
Peaceful China, China at peace.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 9) On November 6, President Xi Jinping sent a message to Rumen Radev, congratulating him on his election as President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Bulgaria was the second country in the world to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, and that mutual respect, equality, and mutually beneficial and win-win outcomes (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win-win") are the distinctive foundation of bilateral relations. In recent years, exchanges and cooperation between the two countries at all levels and in all fields have advanced steadily, and the substance of the strategic partnership has grown increasingly rich. I attach great importance to the development of China-Bulgaria relations and am willing to work with President Radev to guide the two countries in joining hands on their respective paths of development and revitalization, build a more positive, pragmatic, and dynamic bilateral relationship, and better benefit the peoples of both countries.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 硕 罗珊珊 田 泓
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Continue to promote the global economy toward a more open, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction of development."
From November 5 to 10, the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) was held in Shanghai. The CIIE, which improves with each edition, demonstrates China's firm determination to proactively open its market to the world.
Exhibitors from the Global South are arriving in large numbers (纷至沓来, fēn zhì tà lái - "arrive, one after another"), one edition after another of "full-attendance regulars" arrive as promised, and batch after batch of "new faces" are emerging with talent or prominence (崭露头角, zhǎn lù tóu jiǎo - "show, head, corner")... Inside the "four-leaf clover," stories of shared opportunities and surging innovation are being written.
"New Opportunities" Shared
For African enterprises, this edition of the CIIE is somewhat different.
Since May 1 this year, China has fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China. Leveraging the CIIE, more African exhibitors are bringing quality products from their homelands onto Chinese shelves.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "This is a new measure in China's expansion of high-level opening up, and it will surely provide new opportunities for Africa's development and for China and Africa to jointly pursue the dream of modernization."
Yennou Olga, head of Ivorian exhibitor Tafisa, is one such beneficiary.
Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa. However, for a long time, Ivorian cocoa entering China directly accounted for less than 2 percent. With the zero-tariff policy in place, Yennou Olga has more confidence to bring cocoa products to Shanghai and promote them to Chinese buyers.
The tariff dividend is tangibly displayed on the CIIE exhibition booths.
African fresh fruits such as South African sweet cherries and Zimbabwean blueberries made their debut, enriching consumer choices and offering competitive prices.
"The CIIE has allowed us to seize a rare and precious (难能可贵, nán néng kě guì - "difficult, can, worthy, precious") development opportunity." Asnate Adje, head of the brand of Ivorian agri-food processing enterprise Lia Bisa, said frankly that this was a trip that is well worth taking (不虚此行, bù xū cǐ xíng - "not, vain, this, trip").
This is also the common sentiment of many Global South enterprises.
Inside and outside the Asia-Africa Products Zone, Kyrgyzstan's highland honey, Peru's alpaca wool cultural and creative products, and Gabon's wood carvings are all on display. Buyers pause to examine and inquire about prices, and finalize delivery schedules with exhibitors.
The tariff benefit is only one of China's measures to deepen cooperation with the Global South.
At this edition of the CIIE, the Asia-Africa Products Zone has built a precise matchmaking platform for the Global South.
The exhibition area for African enterprises increased by 2 percent; the free booth area provided for least developed countries increased by 17 percent; the Hongqiao International Economic Forum set up multiple sub-forums for in-depth exchanges on inclusive trade, South-South cooperation, and other topics.
The upgrade of the zone goes beyond adding booths. Supporting services such as assistance with overseas exhibition organization, tax incentives for retained purchases of exhibited items, and green customs clearance channels have been implemented simultaneously, helping exhibitors overcome the thresholds of transportation, customs clearance, and settlement, so they can enter the market with ease.
A set of figures bears witness to the intensity of shared opportunities.
Over the first seven editions of the CIIE, the cumulative intended transaction volume from least developed countries reached US$4.18 billion. In 2025, China's imports from Asia, Latin America, and Africa increased by 3.9 percent, 4.9 percent, and 6 percent respectively, and imports from least developed countries increased by 9 percent. In the first nine months of 2026, China-Africa trade volume increased by 22.3 percent year-on-year, with the zero-tariff dividend continuing to be released.
"China actively promotes South-South cooperation and, relying on platforms such as the CIIE, has provided important opportunities for expanding trade among developing countries," said Carlos Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre.
Inside the "four-leaf clover," negotiations continue. Yennou Olga hands a product catalog to another buyer.
The picture of the Global South sharing China's big market is unfolding.
"Full-Attendance Regulars" Keep Their Appointment
At the ninth CIIE, one figure is particularly striking:
Nearly 200 enterprises and institutions attended all editions.
Why do so many multinational enterprises come year after year, never missing a single edition of one exhibition?
The answer must be sought inside the "four-leaf clover."
In 2018, the first CIIE. At the Medtronic booth, a cardiac pacemaker barely larger than a capsule became an "internet-famous exhibit" the moment it appeared, and received approval for market launch from the National Medical Products Administration the following year. Today, it has entered more than 900 hospitals in China.
From the exhibition booth to the operating table, the path passes through institutional gates that have been opened one by one: the market opened wider, approval accelerated, and channels smoothed.
From zero to more than 900 hospitals, behind this is the support of China's super-large market, with the health needs of more than 1.4 billion people being released at an accelerated pace.
In recent years, nearly 40 star products from the CIIE have been rapidly transformed into clinical solutions by Medtronic.
This year, Medtronic brings more than 120 innovative products and solutions, 7 of which are world premieres.
Why always attend? Medtronic Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Geoff Martha said frankly: "China is one of the most dynamic markets in the global healthcare sector" and "the CIIE has become an important platform connecting China and the world."
The answer behind this is very clear: the CIIE has opened the "golden door" to the Chinese market.
The advantages of the super-large market combined with the dividend of opening up have made the Chinese market a market for the world and a market shared by all.
"Five years ago, I announced the holding of the CIIE precisely to expand opening up and turn China's big market into great opportunities for the world." General Secretary Xi Jinping stated in his speech at the opening ceremony of the fifth China International Import Expo, explaining the original intention behind China's hosting of the CIIE.
Premiered in China, and created in China — the Schneider Electric booth is another story of a two-way endeavor.
The sulfur hexafluoride-free environmentally friendly switchgear first exhibited at the third CIIE was developed with the participation of a Chinese team; the new-generation air circuit breaker first exhibited at the sixth CIIE rolled off the production line at the Shanghai Kangqiao plant the following year and was sold to East Asia and the Middle East. After 39 years of deep cultivation, China has become one of Schneider Electric's four global R&D bases.
"Continuously increasing investment in China demonstrates our firm confidence in the Chinese market and industrial prospects," said Yin Zheng, Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric and President of China and East Asia.
From "produced in China" to "created in China," for enterprises from various countries, "China Opportunity 2.0" means all-round innovation empowerment and high-yield investment opportunities.
Why China?
When the adverse currents of unilateralism and protectionism surge, China answers with action: the CIIE is held edition after edition, and the door of opening up opens wider and wider.
For global enterprises, a China that is increasingly open, with a huge market and continuous innovation, is a precious "ballast stone" for global development.
"New Faces" Emerge
In the CIIE Innovation Incubation Zone, a new batch of "new faces" has arrived this year.
Yiji China, making its debut in a special exhibition format, brought 10 early-stage sci-tech innovation projects from the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and other places.
In front of the booth, it is crowded with people moving about (人头攒动, rén tóu cuán dòng - "people, heads, crowd, move"). Extreme weather inspection-integrated drones, emotional companion robots... these new products that have just left the laboratory are attracting much attention.
How do "new faces" stand out?
Chen Wenjun, head of Lingchu Technology, tells his own story.
After graduating from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in January this year, Chen Wenjun planned to start a business with three invention patents. However, as someone focused on technology, he was not very familiar with the business registration procedures.
"Yiji China helped us find incubation space in Shanghai and connect with application scenarios such as ports and wind power, allowing the team to focus on product R&D." Chen Wenjun thus founded Lingchu Technology.
A few months later, the deep-sea special robots of this newly established company were placed on the CIIE exhibition booth.
New product premieres, industrial matchmaking, financing negotiations... The CIIE builds a platform for startup teams one by one, connecting them to the gateway of China's super-large market.
How do "new faces" shine brightly?
Behind the "fast track" for innovation is a sustainable collaborative incubation network.
Relying on the CIIE, Yiji China has established operations in Minhang and Jiading in Shanghai and in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, adapting "soil" for overseas projects at different entrepreneurial stages and in different technology fields. Over six years, it has introduced and incubated more than 300 projects, half of which are returnee entrepreneurship projects.
Incubation is not a one-off deal. At this edition of the CIIE, the Innovation Incubation Zone will hold about 20 roadshows and exchange and negotiation sessions, and with the help of the CIIE's "6 days + 365 days" one-stop trading service platform, projects can be "brought in and retained."
From incubation to growth, behind each "new face" is an open, inclusive, and ever-renewing fertile ground for innovation.
Complete sci-tech innovation support policies, continuously optimized business environment, and comprehensive industrial supporting facilities... Nurtured by China's innovation ecosystem that is conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation, more and more startups have found the "fast track" from the laboratory to the market.
"Innovation-driven development is an inevitable choice for sustaining the development of the world economy." In his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the second China International Import Expo, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "working hard to break down barriers to the flow of innovation factors such as knowledge, technology, and talent" and "letting the sources of innovation flow fully."
The Innovation Incubation Zone of this CIIE brings together 633 sci-tech innovation projects, a record scale.
The zone gathers more than 20 domestic and international innovation cooperation institutions and has grandly created the "Touch the Future" experience area, turning cutting-edge sci-tech achievements into immersive experiences that can be touched and operated.
With the CIIE as a bridge, an open China opens up infinite possibilities for global entrepreneurs. More "new faces" will set off from here and grow into towering trees of tomorrow.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 9) Premier of the State Council Li Qiang recently signed a State Council decree, promulgating the "Regulations on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which shall take effect on January 1, 2027.
The "Regulations" aim to protect the traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, promote the inheritance and development of such traditional knowledge, and carry forward the culture of traditional Chinese medicine. The "Regulations" contain 32 articles in total, mainly stipulating the following contents.
First, clarifying overall requirements. The scope of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine is defined, and the principles of protection work are put forward. It is stipulated that the government shall strengthen protection work and encourage and guide social participation. Support is given to foreign exchanges and cooperation on traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, promoting its international dissemination and application. Work related to the protection of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, such as confidentiality, shall be properly carried out.
Second, comprehensively excavating and organizing traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Through means such as sorting and selecting ancient books and documents of traditional Chinese medicine, conducting surveys of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, and encouraging holders to declare, traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine is excavated and organized through multiple channels, and a protection database is established. The application of the protection database is strengthened to promote the dissemination of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. The system of holders of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine is improved; for traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine that is in the public domain and can be publicly accessed, reasonable utilization is supported, and the competent department of traditional Chinese medicine under the State Council shall perform the duties of the holder.
Third, strengthening the protection, inheritance, and utilization of important traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. A protection list is established, inclusion criteria are clarified, and through procedures such as selection by expert groups, public announcement, and publication, traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine that is representative, distinctive, and of important protection value is included in the protection list. For traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine included in the protection list, inheritance and dissemination are supported, promotion and application are strengthened, and research and innovation are promoted.
In addition, corresponding legal liability is clarified for acts that violate the "Regulations."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁 倪 弋
On November 6, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Public Interest Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China for Procuratorial Organs was formally voted and passed — a landmark event in the course of China's rule-of-law construction.
In October 2014, the "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party included a formulation of pioneering significance: "Explore the establishment of a system for procuratorial organs to initiate public interest litigation."
Over 12 years, from pilot programs in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to the full rollout of the system through legislation, from scattered provisions on procuratorial public interest litigation in individual laws to a systematic and complete special law — this is not merely the birth of a law, but a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in the field of public interest protection.
How did a formulation in a document from back then "grow into" a law?
In this answer lie the power of thought, the sentiment of serving the people, the governance wisdom rooted in China's cultural soil, and the institutional contribution that enriches the rule-of-law civilization of humanity.
An Original Achievement in Solving a Worldwide Difficult Problem
On Wanfeng Lake, located in the upper reaches of the Pearl River, flocks of wintering migratory birds occasionally sweep across the vast expanse of blue waves.
Returning here seven years later, Liu Jiapu, a prosecutor in the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, made a delightful discovery — the "giant panda in the water," the freshwater jellyfish, which had disappeared for many years, has returned!
"The basin spans the three provinces and regions of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi, and at one time 'nine dragons governed the waters,' each managing its own stretch, leaving pollution problems unresolved for years." Liu Jiapu explained that in 2019, the Supreme People's Procuratorate for the first time directly filed a case for public interest litigation — the Wanfeng Lake special case — integrating the strength of procuratorial organs at four levels, focusing on breaking down institutional, mechanistic, and safeguard obstacles, and guarding a lake of clear water.
In real life, similar problems are called "the tragedy of the commons." For cases where administrative organs exercise their powers illegally or fail to act, causing harm to national interests and social public interests, since citizens, legal persons, or unincorporated organizations have no direct stake in the matter, they cannot initiate public interest litigation.
How to solve this worldwide difficult problem? From the very beginning, the exploration of the procuratorial public interest litigation system has carried the mission of the rule of law.
At the start of the institutional exploration, General Secretary Xi Jinping placed high hopes on it: "Public interest litigation initiated by procuratorial organs is conducive to optimizing the allocation of judicial powers and improving the administrative litigation system, and is also conducive to advancing the building of a law-based government."
General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and personally deployed, enabling procuratorial public interest litigation to achieve a leap from nothing to something, from germination to development —
From 2015 to 2017, he twice presided over meetings of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which successively reviewed and approved the pilot plan for procuratorial organs to initiate public interest litigation reform and the report on the pilot situation and recommendations for next steps;
In 2018, he presided over a meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which reviewed and approved the plan for establishing the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate;
In 2020, at the Central Conference on Work Related to Comprehensive Law-Based Governance, he emphasized "continuing to improve the public interest litigation system and effectively safeguard social public interests."
The 20th National Congress of the Party and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee both made arrangements for public interest litigation work.
A single key measure that influences the entire situation (壹引其纲，万目皆张, yi yin qi gang, wan mu jie zhang - "one, pull, its, net; ten thousand, eyes, all, open").
A timeline bears witness to the trajectory of development: from the NPC Standing Committee's authorization of pilot programs in 2015, to full implementation in 2017, to the enactment of special legislation in 2026 — from top-level design to legislative implementation, the Party's propositions have been transformed into the will of the state, consolidating a consensus across society on public interest protection.
A set of achievements demonstrates the combined strength of the system: before the special legislation, 26 existing laws already provided for public interest litigation provisions; 30 provincial-level NPC Standing Committees issued special decisions on strengthening procuratorial public interest litigation; 27 provincial-level Party committees and governments issued opinions supporting procuratorial public interest litigation… Through deep integration into the national governance system, institutional strength has been consolidated and activated.
Rooted in litigation, yet transcending litigation.
Looking at the world, constrained by political systems, whether in common law or civil law countries, there has been essentially no systematic exploration of procuratorial administrative public interest litigation.
Yet over 12 years, Chinese procuratorial organs have handled more than 1.35 million public interest litigation cases, over 90 percent of which were administrative public interest litigation cases, with approximately 95 percent achieving resolution of public interest harm before trial — blazing a successful path with Chinese characteristics.
"From 'I must change' to 'I want to change,' from litigating in a court of law (对簿公堂, dui bu gong tang - "against, court, public, hall") to moving toward each other in mutual cooperation (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing - "towards, towards, each, walk"), procuratorial public interest litigation has grown out of collaborative governance, achieving effective protection of public interests within the framework of the rule of law." Cao Liu, deputy director of the Rule of Law Government Research Institute at China University of Political Science and Law, said that the reason this mechanism works lies in the institutional advantage under the Party's leadership — all parties do not contend for their own interests, but instead plan together for the public interest.
This original achievement also provides a new solution to the "tragedy of the commons" problem: a specialized state organ serves as the representative of public interests, leveraging administrative supervision and promoting governance through rule-of-law means, deeply integrating public interest protection into the grand framework of modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, procuratorial public interest litigation draws nourishment from and selectively applies the fine traditional Chinese culture of the principle that everything under heaven belongs to the public (天下为公, tian xia wei gong - "under, heaven, for, public") and maintaining harmony to avoid disputes and litigation (和合无讼, he he wu song - "harmony, harmony, without, litigation"), promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese legal culture, and endowing Chinese rule-of-law civilization with new contemporary connotations.
An Institutional Exploration Combining Top-Level Design with Exploring New Paths by Trial and Error (摸着石头过河, mo zhe shi tou guo he - "touch, with, stone, cross, river")
"Advancing reform under the rule of law, and perfecting the rule of law through reform" — this is the requirement emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Last year, Tang Qiujing, a prosecutor at the Binjiang District People's Procuratorate in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, discovered a lead: multiple cases of telecom fraud involving concert tickets had occurred locally, and behind them was the illegal subleasing of code numbers by telecommunications business operators.
As a new type of public interest litigation case, after being reported level by level to the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Binjiang District People's Procuratorate filed the nation's first civil public interest litigation involving code number resources for anti-telecom and online fraud, and ultimately the Hangzhou Internet Court ruled that the defendant pay public interest damages totaling 500,000 yuan.
Tang Qiujing recalled that the first question she asked herself at the start of handling the case was not "how to file this case," but "can we actually manage this kind of matter at all?" Seeing that this special legislation has explicitly included "anti-telecom and online fraud" in the scope of public interest litigation, she feels even more confident.
Every question asked is drawing boundaries for the system; every answer given is adding content to the system.
At the start of the pilot program, the explicit authorized scope of procuratorial public interest litigation covered only four fields, but the NPC Standing Committee's authorization decision left a "loophole," which meant leaving room for exploration.
For example, children "doxxed" in the digital space, blind lanes in public places occupied as parking spaces, wall bricks in historical sites covered with carved names… Behind every newly added field lies a pain point in public interest protection; every expansion of the scope of supervision responds to the urgent needs of the people.
In 2019, after the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee explicitly proposed "expanding the scope of public interest litigation cases," the Supreme People's Procuratorate promptly adjusted the exploration principle for new types of cases from "steady and proactive" to "proactive and steady."
With the word order changed, the rhythm changed — the focus shifted from "stability" to "progress," and the exploration of procuratorial public interest litigation pressed the accelerator.
"Reform and the rule of law advance in tandem, enhancing the penetrating power of reform." By the time the special legislation was passed, the public interest litigation provisions in current laws covered 15 fields, and this legislation has added content on the protection of workers' rights and interests, the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly, the protection of the rights and interests of persons with disabilities, and the protection of national defense interests, ensuring that the procuratorial public interest litigation system always operates on the track of the rule of law.
"The vitality of law lies in its implementation, and the authority of law also lies in its implementation."
In fulfilling the responsibility of judicial protection of public interests, the procuratorial and judicial organs cooperate and coordinate, through supervision by the people's procuratorates and adjudication by the people's courts, transforming judicial synergy into tangible results in public interest protection, demonstrating the common rule-of-law responsibility of the people's procuratorates and the people's courts in the new era.
In 2025, procuratorial organs in Baoding City, Hebei Province, discovered that a company had used packaging bearing the portraits of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain for commercial advertising.
"For acts that use the name of 'red culture' to pursue commercial profit, harming the portraits, reputations, and honor of martyrs, procuratorial organs have an unshirkable duty." The prosecutor handling the case said that after obtaining the consent of the close relatives of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, the procuratorial organ lawfully initiated civil public interest litigation. The court held a public hearing of the case and ruled in support of all the procuratorial organ's claims.
As a descendant of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, Song Fubao, comparing the changes before and after the establishment of the procuratorial public interest litigation system, said with emotion: "Now the judicial organs have stepped forward, ensuring that the glory of the martyrs is strictly protected in accordance with the law. I sincerely hope the new law will play an even greater role."
Combining top-level design with exploring new paths by trial and error, reform and the rule of law complementing each other to achieve a better result (相辅相成, xiang fu xiang cheng - "mutually, assist, mutually, complete") and being born together, jointly sound the strong rule-of-law note of procuratorial public interest litigation from initial pioneering to development and improvement.
Governance Effectiveness in Serving the Overall Situation and Safeguarding People's Livelihoods Through the Rule of Law
The birth and development of the procuratorial public interest litigation system profoundly reflects the having great foresight and profound insight (远见卓识, yuan jian zhuo shi - "far, vision,卓越, knowledge") of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity through rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods.
"We must always adhere to protecting the ecological environment with the strictest systems and the most rigorous rule of law."
Zhang Hong, then chief prosecutor of the Gezhouba People's Procuratorate in Yichang City, Hubei Province, recalled that during a late-night inspection, she saw boat operators discharging domestic garbage and sewage directly into the Yangtze River.
Yichang, the site of the Three Gorges Dam, sees approximately 50,000 vessel trips waiting at locks and conducting operations each year, with 500,000 crew members passing through; vessel pollution control once became a difficult problem. The situation facing Yichang was a common problem along the entire Yangtze River shipping route.
In May 2022, the Supreme People's Procuratorate decided to directly file a special case on public interest litigation for vessel pollution control in the Yangtze River, with 531 procuratorates simultaneously carrying out a "large-corps operation." After two years of tackling the problem, 602 cases were filed, and local administrative organs in 11 provinces and cities along the river were urged to build a "ship-port-city, collection-transfer-disposal" full-process supervision system in the Yangtze River basin.
In recent years, a batch of cross-regional ecological environment protection special cases, such as those concerning Nansi Lake and the Pearl River water environment, have been filed one after another, and the unique value of procuratorial public interest litigation in solving major governance problems is increasingly evident.
"Use the most rigorous standards, the strictest supervision, the severest penalties, and the most serious accountability to ensure the 'safety on the tip of the tongue' of the broad masses of the people."
A certain agricultural and sideline products wholesale market in Jiangsu Province serves more than 50 counties and cities in the Yangtze River Delta, but in recent years, relevant platforms have received many complaints about food safety issues at this market. What was going on? The Changzhou procuratorial organ in Jiangsu immediately initiated public interest litigation procedures.
"The primary responsibility of the market operator was hollowed out" and "administrative organs were absent in supervision." After the procuratorial organ identified the problems, a procuratorial recommendation was issued to the market supervision department, urging it to perform its duties in accordance with the law and promoting the establishment of a three-dimensional supervision system of "information disclosure + electronic traceability + on-site supervision."
Since last year, the "Food and Drug Safety Benefit Journey" procuratorial public interest litigation supervision campaign has been advancing in depth nationwide, achieving new breakthroughs in whole-chain supervision, full-responsibility coverage, and whole-society coordination.
Medical care and elderly care for senior citizens "is both a family matter and a national matter."
The text on drug instructions is "as small as ants," and elderly people still cannot read it clearly even with a magnifying glass. Dai Yin, a deputy to the National People's Congress, has called for "elderly-friendly adaptation" for many years. At a training session for deputies, upon hearing an introduction to public interest litigation, she immediately raised her hand to ask: "Can procuratorial public interest litigation be used to solve this problem?"
In May 2023, the Supreme People's Procuratorate directly filed a case on this matter and guided procuratorial organs in multiple localities to advance the work simultaneously. These measures ultimately promoted institutional reform at the national level — the Supreme People's Procuratorate communicated with and reached consensus with the National Medical Products Administration, which launched a pilot program for elderly-friendly and barrier-free adaptation of drug instructions, with the first batch of pilots covering 657 drugs.
"Driven by procuratorial public interest litigation, the process has been greatly accelerated." At this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference sessions, Dai Yin specifically added a suggestion: hoping that procuratorial public interest litigation can assist relevant departments in sorting out regulations to make them comply with the requirements of the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-Free Environment.
From pollution control on the Yangtze River, to the "vegetable basket" that reassures and comforts citizens, to drug instructions that the elderly can also read clearly… every change vividly demonstrates the governance effectiveness of procuratorial public interest litigation.
Chinese Solutions That Enrich the Rule-of-Law Civilization of Humanity
The rule of law is an important achievement of human political civilization.
"China has accumulated considerable experience in giving play to the role of prosecutors in public interest protection and advancing the building of the rule of law, and is also willing to actively draw on the world's relevant achievements in rule-of-law civilization." General Secretary Xi Jinping has the lofty cause of human peace and development at heart.
In September this year, a letter of thanks from Martin Harper, Chief Executive Officer of BirdLife International, was delivered to Lu Hongtao, a prosecutor in the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate — the letter praised the pioneering work of China's procuratorial public interest litigation as "setting an example of protecting migratory flyways through legal and institutional action" and "providing practical potential for replication and promotion."
China is an important corridor for the cross-border migration of migratory birds. Previously, a public interest litigation case involving "people competing with birds for food" handled by the Chongming District People's Procuratorate in Shanghai, because it protected birds while also taking into account the legitimate interests of farmers in using nets to protect crops and aquatic products, attracted the interest of foreign experts.
"Foreign experts believe that China's procuratorial public interest litigation is full of governance wisdom that balances development and protection, and they also see China's concrete actions in promoting harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature." Lu Hongtao said.
In recent years, the "good stories" of China's procuratorial public interest litigation have gone abroad: stories of protecting mangroves, spotted seals, and Chinese white dolphins have frequently appeared at conferences of the parties to international conventions; stories of urging the rectification of "hard bones" such as mining pollution in the "Manganese Triangle" and illegal mining by mining enterprises in Hunyuan have been repeatedly mentioned at international conferences… These cases are like seeds, carrying the advanced concepts and unique value of China's procuratorial public interest litigation system, taking root and sprouting in the soil of global rule-of-law civilization.
"The rule of law is an internationally common language." Ma Huaide, president of Renmin University of China, believes that the procuratorial public interest litigation system vividly interprets, through the discourse of the rule of law, the common values of all humanity embodied in Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, presents a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China from the perspective of the rule of law, enhances the international community's understanding and recognition of China's rule of law, and demonstrates China's image as a major country under the rule of law and a major civilized country.
Improving oneself to help others succeed (立己达人, li ji da ren - "establish, self, reach, others"), sharing beauty and prosperity with others (美美与共, mei mei yu gong - "beautiful, beautiful, with, share").
In 2025, at the special invitation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of Vietnam, a delegation from China's Supreme People's Procuratorate visited Vietnam to systematically introduce China's procuratorial public interest litigation system.
"I didn't expect the seminar to turn into a 'Q&A session'!" Xie Wenyi, a prosecutor in the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that more than 700 local procuratorates in Vietnam participated simultaneously via remote video link, and they had done a great deal of preparation before the meeting, with more than 100 collected questions covering everything from institutional construction to case-handling operations.
The World Conservation Congress, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, the high-level side event of prosecutors general at the United Nations Climate Change Conference… In recent years, Chinese procuratorial organs have fully leveraged international conventions, international organizations, and other vehicles and platforms to let the rule-of-law wisdom of procuratorial public interest litigation cross mountains and seas.
As a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in the field of public interest protection, from "exploring the establishment" to special legislation, procuratorial public interest litigation has blazed an effective governance path, providing a new paradigm for countries around the world to solve public interest protection problems, and becoming Chinese solutions that enrich the rule-of-law civilization of humanity.
This path of public interest judicial protection with Chinese characteristics is bound to grow ever broader!
Return to TopIn recent years, China has intensified the implementation of a new round of the action to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion jin, promoting stable and increased grain output. The photo shows agricultural technicians driving harvesters to harvest rice in high-standard farmland in Ganlin Town, Shengzhou City, Zhejiang Province, in early November.
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Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Wang Yunshan) The reporter learned from the National Energy Administration: In the first nine months, the cumulative electricity consumption of the whole society reached 8,073.4 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%.
In September, the electricity consumption of the whole society was 899.7 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. Viewed by industry, the electricity consumption of the primary industry was 13.5 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%. The electricity consumption of the secondary industry was 580.0 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%; among which, industrial electricity consumption was 575.1 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 1.8%, and electricity consumption of high-tech and equipment manufacturing was 116.7 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%. The electricity consumption of the tertiary industry was 185.2 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%; among which, electricity consumption of the charging and battery-swapping service industry and the internet data service industry was 16.8 billion and 9.8 billion kilowatt-hours respectively, with growth rates reaching 57.0% and 35.4% respectively.
Return to TopTheory · A Complete Reading of Volumes I–V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China
A Scientific Guide for Promoting Chinese Modernization Through the Great Unity of the Chinese Nation
Eleventh Edition
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李龙伊 黄 超
The Red Army's Long March, an extraordinary and earth-shaking revolutionary feat, holds great significance in the history of our Party, our country, and our military, and has exerted a profound influence on the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
"The victory of the Long March was inevitable, and it embodies the way to victory by which the Party and the people's army advanced with resounding steps." At the conference commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, looking back on the suffering and the glory, General Secretary Xi Jinping's words traversed the winds and clouds of history.
Where does "inevitability" come from?
The answer lies in the Long March stories the General Secretary has told time and again. The night at the ferry crossing, the blood of the Xiang River, the question on the grassland, the cold of the snow mountains... Scene after scene of history sketches the clear contours of the way to victory.
Loyalty——
The road to the great victory of the Long March of the Red Army was walked out by relying on the Party's correct leadership
On June 29, 2018, at the sixth collective study session of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee, the topic of which was strengthening the Party's political development, General Secretary Xi Jinping recounted the story of the "question on the grassland." While crossing the grassland, a comrade cook "asked whether to head south or north," and what he was asking about was the future of the Red Army and the direction of the Chinese revolution.
"Political direction is the first and foremost issue for the Party's survival and development, bearing on the Party's future and destiny and the success or failure of its cause."
Direction determines the road, and the road determines destiny. Our Party has always attached importance to building the Party politically.
From the Gutian Conference establishing the principles of building the Party ideologically and building the military politically, to the Seventh National Congress of the Party proposing "first and foremost focusing on construction politically and ideologically," to the emphasis after reform and opening up that "at all times we must speak of politics," and then to the great practice of governing and managing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party in the new era, giving rise to Xi Jinping's thought on Party building...
Looking across the Party's history of more than a hundred years, one profound truth is unassailable: building the Party politically is an important guarantee for our Party's continuous growth and strengthening and its advance from victory to victory.
"The people's army must firmly uphold the Party's absolute leadership over the military, treating this as the military soul that the people's army can never change and the lifeline it can never discard."
In October 2014, in Gutian, western Fujian, the Political Work Conference of the Whole Army was convened. General Secretary Xi Jinping recounted the story of the Red 34th Division, "more than 6,000 men, mainly sons of western Fujian, and in the Battle of the Xiang River nearly the entire division was sacrificed."
At the conference commemorating the centenary of the May Fourth Movement, at the Memorial Hall of the Xiang River Battle of the Long March of the Red Army... the hero Chen Shuxiang, who "cut open his intestines to make his resolve clear," whom the General Secretary has mentioned many times, was precisely the division commander of that division. All the officers and men of the Red 34th Division, with their blood and their lives, set an example of heroic absolute loyalty to the Party.
A cook, carrying a clear political yardstick in his heart; a division commander, willing to give up his life to defend his faith. Their positions differed, but their direction was the same — always taking the Party's banner as our banner, the Party's direction as our direction, and the Party's will as our will, and upholding loyalty to the Party as a prominent position in Party spirit cultivation.
The meeting convened in Gutian made arrangements for political military building in the new era, advancing political rectification and training in the spirit of rectification. Ten years later, the Political Work Conference of the Central Military Commission was convened in Yan'an, Shaanxi, to "continuously deepen political rectification and training."
Rectification and training forged a new spirit, leading the people's army to repack its gear and set out anew.
From Gutian to Yan'an, the Party's leadership over our military, which had at one time been weakened, was strengthened; the focus of work, which had at one time shifted, was corrected; the unhealthy tendencies and corrupt practices that were once thought unstoppable were curbed; the political ecosystem, which had at one time deteriorated, was reversed. The people's army, through revolutionary forging, was reborn from the fire and renewed itself through transformation.
Justice——
The road to the great victory of the Long March of the Red Army was walked out by relying on firm revolutionary will
Finding life through facing death (向死而生, xiang si er sheng - "towards, death; and, live") amid a hail of bullets, surviving against all odds at the limits of survival, being reborn from the fire through undergoing rigorous training or testing (千锤百炼, qian chui bai lian - "thousand, hammer; hundred, refine")... During the Long March, in the face of extraordinary hardships and twists and turns, the Party and the Red Army were as firm as a rock, displaying a lofty revolutionary spirit.
"Despite having his wounded leg amputated, he was still determined to crawl to northern Shaanxi." At the commemorative conference, this detail mentioned by General Secretary Xi Jinping reveals "Communist Party members and Red Army officers and men armed with an iron will."
In 1935, at the Battle of Loushan Pass. Zhong Chibing, political commissar of the 12th Regiment of the Third Red Army Corps, charged at the front, was hit in the right leg by a bullet, and survived three amputations. Climbing snow mountains, crossing grasslands, breaking through the enemy's encirclement, pursuit, and blockade, he reached northern Shaanxi on an iron will.
During the Long March, there were many more such stories.
In January 2016, at the military history museum of the former 13th Group Army, upon hearing the story of the "half belt," General Secretary Xi Jinping was deeply moved: "This is the power of faith, a vivid portrayal of 'following the Party with an iron heart.'"
During the Long March of the First Front Army, on average one Red Army soldier sacrificed his life every 300 meters.
"History has eloquently proven that revolutionary ideals and revolutionary convictions can unleash inexhaustible power to overcome stubborn enemies and shake mountains, and that a contingent with lofty ideals and firm convictions is invincible."
Carrying forward the red lineage, forever preserving a pure nature.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping has inspected many units that came through the flames of the Long March:
The "Red Fourth Company of Strengthening the Military and Refining Skills," which during the Long March climbed snow mountains, crossed grasslands, and forded countless torrents and dangerous shoals. The General Secretary inspected this company, instructing the officers and men to "train hard in combat skills, strive to be model soldiers, and take the lead and charge at the front in accomplishing major tasks," and in a reply letter affirmed that they had "outstandingly accomplished the tasks entrusted to them";
A division of the former Army of the Central Theater Command, which had participated in more than 5,000 battles and campaigns, including the Battle of the Xiang River. When the General Secretary inspected the division's history museum, he remarked with emotion, "Our military has always fought on spirit. In the past we had little steel but much spirit; now that we have more steel, we must have even more spirit, and our backbone must be even harder"...
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, the firm revolutionary will shines with new radiance on the road to a strong military in the new era.
Truth——
The road to the great victory of the Long March of the Red Army was walked out by relying on independence and self-reliance and seeking truth from facts
"Forcing the Xiang River, blood flowed like a torrent; where do the three armies head today?" At the commemorative conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned this line from Wu Xiuquan's seven-character regulated verse "Historical Turning Point."
After the Battle of the Xiang River, the Central Red Army was sharply reduced from more than 86,000 men at departure to just over 30,000. Behind the "bitter pain and confusion" lay the erroneous tendency that had once existed within the Party of dogmatizing Marxism.
"Through the lessons learned in blood, our Party came to a profound understanding of the laws of the Chinese revolution, gradually cast off the shackles of dogmatism, and began to independently and self-reliantly, and in seeking truth from facts, resolve major issues such as which road to take and how to fight the war."
Reviewing the Party's more than 100 years of struggle, the Communist Party of China has in every historical period attached great importance to governing and managing the Party, has been courageous in upholding truth and correcting errors, and has continuously grown stronger by relying on its own strength and the support of the people to solve its own problems, becoming the strong leading core of the cause of the Party and the people.
Which road to take?
At the two conferences commemorating the victory of the Long March since the advent of the new era, the Zunyi Conference has been emphasized on multiple occasions.
In June 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Guizhou for inspection, toured the site of the Zunyi Conference and the Zunyi Conference Exhibition Hall, and urged, "We must explain this well to everyone, telling them how our Party came to be where it is today."
The Zunyi Conference in fact established Comrade Mao Zedong's leading position in the Party Central Committee and the Red Army, opened a new stage in which the Party independently resolved the practical problems of the Chinese revolution, and at the most critical juncture saved the Party, saved the Red Army, and saved the Chinese revolution.
The victory of the Long March "achieved unprecedented unity of the whole Party and unprecedented unity of the Red Army on the basis of pursuing truth and upholding truth."
How to fight the war?
"Chairman Mao's use of troops was divine! This is truly a model of mobile warfare." The General Secretary praised this while watching the multimedia presentation "Crossing the Chishui River Four Times" at the Zunyi Conference Exhibition Hall.
It was precisely under the guidance of the Party's correct line that the Red Army's operational command implemented a series of strategic and tactical approaches that suited reality and were flexible and mobile, thereby successfully breaking through the enemy's layers of blockade and continuously moving toward new life and new victory.
Walking one's own road, answering one's own questions. "Only when the basic principles of Marxism are closely integrated with China's concrete reality can they solve China's problems and demonstrate their powerful vitality." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly.
When the winds are high and the waves are rough, independence and self-reliance and seeking truth from facts will always be our magic weapon for overcoming difficulties and perils.
Today, as we stride forward on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, the Two Establishments (两个确立), the major political achievement the Party has made in the new era, has become the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence, and the greatest guarantee for overcoming all difficulties and perils and responding to all uncertainties.
Unity——
The road to the great victory of the Long March of the Red Army was walked out by relying on the support of the broad masses of the people
The reluctance of "Seeing Off the Red Army Ten Times," the protection of the night crossing at Yudu, the warmth of the "half quilt," the oath of the "Yihai Alliance"... Scene after scene along the ten-thousand-li journey vividly interprets the deep bond between the army and the people, as close as fish and water.
"Our army is the people's army, and the feeling between us Communists and the common people is the feeling of sharing one quilt." On September 16, 2020, at the special exhibition hall "The Warmth of the Half Quilt" in Shazhou Yao Village, Wenming Yao Township, Rucheng County, Hunan, General Secretary Xi Jinping was deeply moved.
That same day, the General Secretary walked into the First Primary School of Wenming Yao Township and had a cordial exchange with students who were in an ideological and political theory class. In class, the students vied to share Long March stories: "Half Quilt," "Night March on the Grassland," "Red Army Shoes," "Monument"...
"What is the story of 'Monument'?" the General Secretary asked. A student stood up and recounted how, during the Red Army's march, a quartermaster chief preferred to freeze to death himself rather than put on warmer clothing first.
"Well said! Well said!" the General Secretary praised repeatedly.
At the "first lesson of the year" in 2018, when discussing the fight against the "Four Malfeasances" and corruption, General Secretary Xi Jinping recounted the story of the quartermaster chief and issued a warning: "Privilege is the greatest injustice" and "Everyone must consciously struggle against all kinds of privileged thinking and privileged phenomena, and become accustomed to working and living in an environment of supervision and restraint."
The quilt was given to the people, the padded coat to a comrade-in-arms. This giving and yielding conceals the fundamental reason the Party won the people's hearts: no privilege, only dedication; no private interest, only service to the people.
At the commemorative conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the clear requirement of "five musts" for carrying forward the great Long March spirit and treading well the new Long March, emphasizing that "we must uphold the Party's leadership and strengthen Party building."
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee deliberated and adopted the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party." When explaining to the plenary session the relevant circumstances of the drafting of the Decision, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the major thesis of the "three inevitable requirements," emphasizing that "this is an inevitable requirement for consolidating and developing the sound political situation of the whole Party's high degree of unity and solidarity and the high degree of cohesion of the Party's heart, the military's heart, and the people's heart."
"The country is the people, and the people are the country." In those days the Long March won victory by relying on the people; today our Party still relies on the people to advance from victory to victory.
During that inspection tour of Hunan in September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically invited grassroots representatives to hear their opinions and suggestions on the formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Rural teachers, migrant workers, truck drivers, and major grain-growing households — everyone spoke in turn, voicing urgent difficulties and worries and proposing solutions.
"The masses contain rich wisdom and boundless creativity" and "As long as we are deeply rooted among the people and always maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, the Party's cause will be invincible"...
In this opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, this grand blueprint, which likewise drew on the wisdom of hundreds of millions of people and gathered broad public opinion through open consultation, is now being translated step by step into concrete practice.
The smoke of gunfire and war has long since receded, and the way to victory has become stronger and more resilient over time (历久弥坚, li jiu mi jian - "long time, endure; increasingly, firm").
"The new journey is an expedition filled with glory and dreams, a new Long March for the Party and the people."
Ninety years ago, moving from desperation to new life, "victory was inevitable."
This came from the course of advance charted by the Party's leadership, the revolutionary will that overwhelms all difficulties without being overwhelmed by any difficulty, the bright road opened up through independence and self-reliance and seeking truth from facts, and the mighty force gathered from hundreds of millions of people.
Ninety years later, treading well the new Long March, "victory is inevitable."
Crossing new "snow mountains" and "grasslands," conquering new "Loushan Passes" and "Lazikou Passes," Chinese Communists march on with vast momentum and resounding steps.
The history of the Long March has never receded into the distance, and the road of the Long March continues to extend.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 门杰伟
"Everywhere you look is golden yellow — this place is completely different from the barren scene of last year."
"After two more years of improvement, each hectare can produce at least 15,000 jin of grain."
In Xinping'an Town, Da'an City, Baicheng, Jilin Province, the air is filled with the fragrance of rice, and harvesters drive into 300 hectares of paddy fields. Deep in the rice waves, Xie Shuye, vice president of the Jilin Provincial Chamber of Commerce of Zhejiang and a land contractor, and Kou Jinyou, a local large-scale grain grower who has worked with saline-alkali land for over 20 years, discussed the harvest in the fields. This year, Kou Jinyou was hired to be responsible for the field technical management of the land contracted by Xie Shuye.
Da'an City sits on a saline-alkali belt in western Jilin Province, with over 1.4 million mu of developable saline-alkali land, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the city's total cultivated land. But the saline-alkali land here is heavy in salt and highly alkaline, making it one of the most difficult types to treat. "When the wind blows, your mouth is full of dirt; the land doesn't produce grain, and young people all leave." Pointing to a patch of land beside the paddy fields that is still whitish, Kou Jinyou recalled the situation in earlier years, shaking his head.
By chance, Xie Shuye came to this saline-alkali land. His years of experience connecting grain production and sales in the northeast made him see a business opportunity — "Zhejiang is a major grain-consuming region with a large market gap; Jilin is a major grain-producing region with ample potential in its wasteland. There's plenty of room for cooperation."
In Xie Shuye's view, this land is not only an "enclave granary" for ensuring grain supply, but also an excellent meeting point for complementary advantages between the two regions.
"Treating saline-alkali land is a systematic project; you can't just plow the land and plant." Wang Changzhi, deputy director of the Soil Improvement Research Office at the Baicheng Soda Saline-Alkali Land Treatment Research Institute, said frankly that in earlier years they had also thought about improving the land, but the cost was enormous, finances were tight, and they had the will but not the means.
From improving infrastructure such as ditches, roads, and canals, to soil improvement and continuous fertility building, "to turn wasteland into stable-yield farmland, each hectare requires an investment of more than 200,000 yuan," Wang Changzhi said. When planting grain on saline-alkali land, the first few years often yield only one ear of rice per plant, or even no harvest at all. Growers came and went, and in the end the land was often abandoned again.
Zhejiang has capital and markets; Jilin has land and demand. The two sides reaching an immediate agreement (一拍即合, yi pai ji he - "one, clap, then, join") — creating an integrated "investment-financing-construction-operation-management" model, in which the entire chain, from investment and financing and infrastructure construction to soil improvement, cultivation management, and grain sales, is handed over to the operating entity. After the government coordinates village collectives to intensively consolidate scattered unused land, it signs 30-year long-term land transfer contracts with enterprises.
Can the operating entity make money? "We look at both the short term and the long term. Our plan is to recoup the investment in the first 15 years and earn returns in the latter 15 years." Xie Shuye calculated that for the 300-hectare plot, total investment in infrastructure construction plus soil improvement exceeds 50 million yuan. The first three years are the critical period for improvement, with output gradually climbing. This year is the first year of planting, and high-yield plots are estimated to produce about 10,000 jin of grain per hectare.
The hard-core technology and variety support of the Rice Research Institute of the Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, as well as the market advantages of the southern region, also give Xie Shuye more confidence. "The rice we grow is soft, sticky, and slightly sweet in taste, and it is very popular in the southern market," Xie Shuye said. Next, they will also pursue organic certification, build a regional exclusive brand, and raise the added value.
After calculating the clear long-term development account, the immediate cost account is also clear. The village collective collects a transfer fee of 1,300 yuan per hectare per year, while the local farmland fertility protection subsidy and grain grower production subsidy together amount to about 2,000 yuan per hectare. Zhejiang Province also provides a transportation cost subsidy of about 200 yuan per ton of grain, basically covering the cost.
"Only with stable policies and solid services will enterprises dare to invest." A relevant official from the Da'an Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources introduced that, to ensure social capital participation in land improvement, the local government has streamlined project approval procedures, helped coordinate land transfer with towns and villages, and simultaneously advanced the supporting construction of major water conservancy projects. "Our task is to lay a solid foundation and let enterprises focus on production."
The land has come alive, and the vitality of the people has followed. Kou Jinyou said that during the peak farming season, this land employs nearly 200 workers per day, all farmers from surrounding villages, earning 200 yuan a day. "You can earn money right at your doorstep, so people don't have to go far away."
Data show that Zhejiang operating entities have established 430,000 mu of grain bases in Jilin. From saline-alkali land to a rice granary, behind the "enclave granary" is a vivid practice of complementary regional advantages.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 观
Starting November 1, China has fully promoted "invoicing upon transaction" at refined oil retail gas stations. What conveniences does this new refueling regulation bring to consumers? What should consumers pay attention to when requesting invoices? What help does it provide to gas station operations? A reporter recently conducted interviews on these matters.
"Invoicing upon transaction" means that after a refined oil retail gas station completes a refined oil transaction, it immediately issues a fully digitalized electronic invoice to the purchaser through the tax authority's Leqi platform based on the transaction data. After consumers complete payment for refueling, they can obtain an automatically generated invoice, effectively resolving problems such as the need to provide information each time and the difficulty of obtaining a supplementary invoice afterward.
"Invoicing upon transaction" covers different transaction scenarios in the refined oil retail sector, including purchasers paying refueling fees through third-party payment platforms, internet platforms, and other means, as well as paying through fuel cards, cash, and other means.
A relevant official from the Department of Tax Administration and Tax Collection and Technology Development of the State Taxation Administration stated that promoting the "invoicing upon transaction" model can deeply bind the entire refueling transaction process, effectively prevent gas stations from refusing to issue invoices, omitting invoices, or issuing incorrect invoices, and ensure that refined oil retail consumption is verifiable with evidence (有据可查, you ju ke cha - "have, evidence, can, investigate") and supported by invoices.
Li Linan (李丽囡), head of the Tax Collection and Administration Section of the Liaoyuan Municipal Tax Service of the State Taxation Administration, reminded that consumers should pay attention to two points when applying for "invoicing upon transaction":
First, prepare invoice information and carefully verify basic information in advance. Individuals need to pre-fill their personal name and identity information; for enterprise reimbursement, basic information such as the unit name and tax identification number must be prepared; carefully verify the information before payment; after the transaction is completed and the invoice is generated, if the invoice header needs to be modified, a reissuance can be processed.
Second, promptly save and store the invoice, and properly conduct invoice verification and archiving. After receiving the fully digitalized electronic invoice, download it as soon as possible and make a backup for subsequent inquiry and download use; the invoice information can also be verified on the invoice verification platform of the State Taxation Administration.
For some elderly car owners and groups unfamiliar with online operations, the tax authorities have introduced convenience measures. Gas stations will continue to retain manual assistance services and will not completely eliminate manual service windows. If elderly people cannot operate their phones to receive electronic invoices, station staff can assist with inquiry, download, and printing. If problems such as missed invoice pushes or system abnormalities occur, in addition to contacting the gas station, one can also call the 12366 tax payment and fee payment service hotline for consultation and feedback.
What help does the new regulation provide to gas station operations?
Because the refined oil retail industry has concentrated customer flow, large transaction volumes during peak periods, and high customer mobility, the traditional invoicing model requires manual entry, which is inefficient and prone to errors. The "invoicing upon transaction" model breaks down data barriers between systems, realizing automated and intelligent invoicing processes, with no manual entry or information review required throughout the entire process, reducing the workload of gas station staff.
"Gas station employees generally report that the total time for a single transaction from payment completion to invoice delivery has been compressed from 3-5 minutes before the transformation to within 5 seconds, and the impact of the invoicing step on refueling bay turnover efficiency has been basically eliminated. Automatic invoicing after transaction completion greatly reduces the time car owners spend staying at the station. Through preset information, car owners achieve 'maintain once, reuse long-term,' and the burden of repeated form filling is significantly reduced," said Xie Changcheng (解长成), deputy head of the Tax Collection and Administration Section of the Shuangyang District Tax Service of Changchun City under the State Taxation Administration.
According to reports, after realizing "invoicing upon transaction," the financial reconciliation process achieves automatic cross-checking between transaction records and invoicing details, allowing financial personnel to devote more effort to business analysis and management decision support. The full transaction data generated by "invoicing upon transaction" also provides an important reference for gas stations' own business analysis. Station operators can rely on structured business reports to analyze sales of different fuel types across different time periods and categories, assisting in inventory allocation and marketing activity planning.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 硕 罗珊珊 田 泓
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Continue to promote the global economy toward a more open, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction of development."
From November 5 to 10, the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) was held in Shanghai. The CIIE, which improves with each edition, demonstrates China's firm determination to proactively open its market to the world.
Exhibitors from the Global South are arriving in large numbers (纷至沓来, fēn zhì tà lái - "arrive, one after another"), one edition after another of "full-attendance regulars" arrive as promised, and batch after batch of "new faces" are emerging with talent or prominence (崭露头角, zhǎn lù tóu jiǎo - "show, head, corner")... Inside the "four-leaf clover," stories of shared opportunities and surging innovation are being written.
"New Opportunities" Shared
For African enterprises, this edition of the CIIE is somewhat different.
Since May 1 this year, China has fully implemented zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China. Leveraging the CIIE, more African exhibitors are bringing quality products from their homelands onto Chinese shelves.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "This is a new measure in China's expansion of high-level opening up, and it will surely provide new opportunities for Africa's development and for China and Africa to jointly pursue the dream of modernization."
Yennou Olga, head of Ivorian exhibitor Tafisa, is one such beneficiary.
Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa. However, for a long time, Ivorian cocoa entering China directly accounted for less than 2 percent. With the zero-tariff policy in place, Yennou Olga has more confidence to bring cocoa products to Shanghai and promote them to Chinese buyers.
The tariff dividend is tangibly displayed on the CIIE exhibition booths.
African fresh fruits such as South African sweet cherries and Zimbabwean blueberries made their debut, enriching consumer choices and offering competitive prices.
"The CIIE has allowed us to seize a rare and precious (难能可贵, nán néng kě guì - "difficult, can, worthy, precious") development opportunity." Asnate Adje, head of the brand of Ivorian agri-food processing enterprise Lia Bisa, said frankly that this was a trip that is well worth taking (不虚此行, bù xū cǐ xíng - "not, vain, this, trip").
This is also the common sentiment of many Global South enterprises.
Inside and outside the Asia-Africa Products Zone, Kyrgyzstan's highland honey, Peru's alpaca wool cultural and creative products, and Gabon's wood carvings are all on display. Buyers pause to examine and inquire about prices, and finalize delivery schedules with exhibitors.
The tariff benefit is only one of China's measures to deepen cooperation with the Global South.
At this edition of the CIIE, the Asia-Africa Products Zone has built a precise matchmaking platform for the Global South.
The exhibition area for African enterprises increased by 2 percent; the free booth area provided for least developed countries increased by 17 percent; the Hongqiao International Economic Forum set up multiple sub-forums for in-depth exchanges on inclusive trade, South-South cooperation, and other topics.
The upgrade of the zone goes beyond adding booths. Supporting services such as assistance with overseas exhibition organization, tax incentives for retained purchases of exhibited items, and green customs clearance channels have been implemented simultaneously, helping exhibitors overcome the thresholds of transportation, customs clearance, and settlement, so they can enter the market with ease.
A set of figures bears witness to the intensity of shared opportunities.
Over the first seven editions of the CIIE, the cumulative intended transaction volume from least developed countries reached US$4.18 billion. In 2025, China's imports from Asia, Latin America, and Africa increased by 3.9 percent, 4.9 percent, and 6 percent respectively, and imports from least developed countries increased by 9 percent. In the first nine months of 2026, China-Africa trade volume increased by 22.3 percent year-on-year, with the zero-tariff dividend continuing to be released.
"China actively promotes South-South cooperation and, relying on platforms such as the CIIE, has provided important opportunities for expanding trade among developing countries," said Carlos Correa, Executive Director of the South Centre.
Inside the "four-leaf clover," negotiations continue. Yennou Olga hands a product catalog to another buyer.
The picture of the Global South sharing China's big market is unfolding.
"Full-Attendance Regulars" Keep Their Appointment
At the ninth CIIE, one figure is particularly striking:
Nearly 200 enterprises and institutions attended all editions.
Why do so many multinational enterprises come year after year, never missing a single edition of one exhibition?
The answer must be sought inside the "four-leaf clover."
In 2018, the first CIIE. At the Medtronic booth, a cardiac pacemaker barely larger than a capsule became an "internet-famous exhibit" the moment it appeared, and received approval for market launch from the National Medical Products Administration the following year. Today, it has entered more than 900 hospitals in China.
From the exhibition booth to the operating table, the path passes through institutional gates that have been opened one by one: the market opened wider, approval accelerated, and channels smoothed.
From zero to more than 900 hospitals, behind this is the support of China's super-large market, with the health needs of more than 1.4 billion people being released at an accelerated pace.
In recent years, nearly 40 star products from the CIIE have been rapidly transformed into clinical solutions by Medtronic.
This year, Medtronic brings more than 120 innovative products and solutions, 7 of which are world premieres.
Why always attend? Medtronic Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Geoff Martha said frankly: "China is one of the most dynamic markets in the global healthcare sector" and "the CIIE has become an important platform connecting China and the world."
The answer behind this is very clear: the CIIE has opened the "golden door" to the Chinese market.
The advantages of the super-large market combined with the dividend of opening up have made the Chinese market a market for the world and a market shared by all.
"Five years ago, I announced the holding of the CIIE precisely to expand opening up and turn China's big market into great opportunities for the world." General Secretary Xi Jinping stated in his speech at the opening ceremony of the fifth China International Import Expo, explaining the original intention behind China's hosting of the CIIE.
Premiered in China, and created in China — the Schneider Electric booth is another story of a two-way endeavor.
The sulfur hexafluoride-free environmentally friendly switchgear first exhibited at the third CIIE was developed with the participation of a Chinese team; the new-generation air circuit breaker first exhibited at the sixth CIIE rolled off the production line at the Shanghai Kangqiao plant the following year and was sold to East Asia and the Middle East. After 39 years of deep cultivation, China has become one of Schneider Electric's four global R&D bases.
"Continuously increasing investment in China demonstrates our firm confidence in the Chinese market and industrial prospects," said Yin Zheng, Executive Vice President of Schneider Electric and President of China and East Asia.
From "produced in China" to "created in China," for enterprises from various countries, "China Opportunity 2.0" means all-round innovation empowerment and high-yield investment opportunities.
Why China?
When the adverse currents of unilateralism and protectionism surge, China answers with action: the CIIE is held edition after edition, and the door of opening up opens wider and wider.
For global enterprises, a China that is increasingly open, with a huge market and continuous innovation, is a precious "ballast stone" for global development.
"New Faces" Emerge
In the CIIE Innovation Incubation Zone, a new batch of "new faces" has arrived this year.
Yiji China, making its debut in a special exhibition format, brought 10 early-stage sci-tech innovation projects from the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and other places.
In front of the booth, it is crowded with people moving about (人头攒动, rén tóu cuán dòng - "people, heads, crowd, move"). Extreme weather inspection-integrated drones, emotional companion robots... these new products that have just left the laboratory are attracting much attention.
How do "new faces" stand out?
Chen Wenjun, head of Lingchu Technology, tells his own story.
After graduating from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in January this year, Chen Wenjun planned to start a business with three invention patents. However, as someone focused on technology, he was not very familiar with the business registration procedures.
"Yiji China helped us find incubation space in Shanghai and connect with application scenarios such as ports and wind power, allowing the team to focus on product R&D." Chen Wenjun thus founded Lingchu Technology.
A few months later, the deep-sea special robots of this newly established company were placed on the CIIE exhibition booth.
New product premieres, industrial matchmaking, financing negotiations... The CIIE builds a platform for startup teams one by one, connecting them to the gateway of China's super-large market.
How do "new faces" shine brightly?
Behind the "fast track" for innovation is a sustainable collaborative incubation network.
Relying on the CIIE, Yiji China has established operations in Minhang and Jiading in Shanghai and in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, adapting "soil" for overseas projects at different entrepreneurial stages and in different technology fields. Over six years, it has introduced and incubated more than 300 projects, half of which are returnee entrepreneurship projects.
Incubation is not a one-off deal. At this edition of the CIIE, the Innovation Incubation Zone will hold about 20 roadshows and exchange and negotiation sessions, and with the help of the CIIE's "6 days + 365 days" one-stop trading service platform, projects can be "brought in and retained."
From incubation to growth, behind each "new face" is an open, inclusive, and ever-renewing fertile ground for innovation.
Complete sci-tech innovation support policies, continuously optimized business environment, and comprehensive industrial supporting facilities... Nurtured by China's innovation ecosystem that is conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation, more and more startups have found the "fast track" from the laboratory to the market.
"Innovation-driven development is an inevitable choice for sustaining the development of the world economy." In his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the second China International Import Expo, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "working hard to break down barriers to the flow of innovation factors such as knowledge, technology, and talent" and "letting the sources of innovation flow fully."
The Innovation Incubation Zone of this CIIE brings together 633 sci-tech innovation projects, a record scale.
The zone gathers more than 20 domestic and international innovation cooperation institutions and has grandly created the "Touch the Future" experience area, turning cutting-edge sci-tech achievements into immersive experiences that can be touched and operated.
With the CIIE as a bridge, an open China opens up infinite possibilities for global entrepreneurs. More "new faces" will set off from here and grow into towering trees of tomorrow.
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From global partners sharing in the dividends of the market, to multinational enterprises continuing to deepen their presence, to overseas science-and-technology innovation projects being incubated and taking root, by means of this open bridge of the China International Import Expo, enterprises from all countries and fine products from around the world have come across the oceans, finding broad tracks and winning room for development in China's super-large market, and achieving mutually beneficial outcomes (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, mutual win") through a mutual effort from both sides (双向奔赴, shuang xiang ben fu - "two directions, run towards").
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "China will open its arms wide to provide all countries with more market opportunities, investment opportunities, and growth opportunities, and achieve common development." The China International Import Expo has been held session after session, and with the "bigness" of the Chinese market, the "substance" of its opening-up policies, and the "vibrancy" of its innovation ecosystem, it has injected precious certainty into the world economy, demonstrating the breadth of mind and sense of responsibility of China as a major responsible country.
In today's world, the degree to which countries are interconnected and interdependent has deepened to an unprecedented extent. Opening up and cooperation are an important driving force for enhancing the vitality of international economy and trade, a practical requirement for promoting the stable recovery of the world economy, and a call of the times for promoting the continuous progress of human society.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has made important arrangements for "expanding high-level opening up and creating a new situation of win-win cooperation." China will continue to inject new momentum and create new opportunities for the common development of all countries in the world.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 沈小晓
At the Lina Farm in the Bahariya Oasis in western Egypt, rows of date palm trees are heavy with fruit. Our reporter's visit coincided with the harvest: workers moved among the trees, busy picking and sorting. After strict screening and storage treatment, these specialty agricultural products from the banks of the Nile will embark on the road of export, reaching a broader overseas market. China is an important major market for Egyptian date exports. From Egypt's desert oases to the Chinese market, each date bears witness to the deepening economic and trade cooperation between China and Egypt.
"Providing an important window for Egyptian products to enter the Chinese market"
Dates, also known as date palms, are an important crop in West Asia, North Africa, and other regions. Known as the "bread of the desert," they are rich in various vitamins and natural sugars and have high nutritional value. Lina Farm is an Egyptian date production enterprise that mainly grows and processes Medjool, Barhi, and other date varieties. After years of development, Lina Farm has gradually established a complete industrial chain from seedling cultivation, date planting, to processing and export in Egypt's Bahariya Oasis, Minya Governorate, Sadat City, and other locations, making it one of the main producers of high-quality dates in Egypt and the Middle East.
In 2023, Lina Farm began supplying high-quality dates to the Chinese market. "The demand in the Chinese market is growing day by day, and we see broad opportunities." Ahmed Abdel-Hadi, export manager of Lina Farm, said that in 2024, Lina Farm participated in the China International Import Expo (CIIE) for the first time, hoping to establish connections with more Chinese importers and distributors through this open cooperation platform and further expand its business in China.
"Participating in the CIIE gave us the opportunity to understand the needs of Chinese consumers up close and further deepened our expectations for the vast Chinese market." Abdel-Hadi said that through direct exchanges with buyers and consumers, he and his team colleagues felt Chinese customers' interest in Egyptian dates, especially strong interest in A-grade premium Medjool dates. "Stable quality, competitive prices, and compliance with import standards are the keys to winning consumer recognition and opening up the high-end market," Abdel-Hadi said.
In recent years, as economic and trade exchanges between China and Egypt have continued to develop, more and more Egyptian enterprises are placing greater importance on the Chinese market. Sherif El-Mawardy, former chairman of the Egyptian Authority for Exhibitions and Conferences, said: "The CIIE provides an important window for Egyptian products to enter the Chinese market and is crucial to Egypt and Egyptian enterprises."
"My family and I have a guaranteed income"
For the employees of Lina Farm, their livelihoods are closely tied to this date palm grove.
Mohamed has tended the date palm trees at Lina Farm for many years and is thoroughly familiar with (熟稔于心, shu ren yu xin - "familiar, at, heart") every step of the process. "In recent years, the farm's export volume has grown steadily, giving my family and me a guaranteed income," Mohamed said. There are many growers like him at Lina Farm and in the surrounding production areas, and the date planting and processing industry has absorbed a large amount of local rural labor.
In the packaging and sorting workshop, workers are busy processing the freshly harvested dates. An intelligent grading machine is sorting the dates by size, color, degree of completeness, and other criteria. "The machine uses artificial intelligence technology to take photos and analyze, completing grading and classification more accurately and quickly. Thanks to the rapid development of our business, we will add more such intelligent equipment in the future," factory manager Sayed told the reporter. The company has a dedicated quality team that supervises every link from raw material receipt to finished product shipment, ensuring compliance with the pesticide residue, contaminant limit, and certification requirements of the destination countries.
The institutional channel for Egyptian fresh dates to enter the Chinese market was opened as early as 2019. On October 8, 2019, the General Administration of Customs of China issued an announcement allowing the import of Egyptian fresh dates that meet relevant requirements. The announcement has clear provisions on orchard and packaging plant registration, cold treatment, pest monitoring, and other aspects. Abdel-Hadi said that Lina Farm completes cold treatment and quality control in accordance with the relevant requirements to ensure that dates exported to China meet China's inspection, quarantine, and food safety standards.
"An important platform for promoting international trade and global economic cooperation"
"The CIIE provides people with a valuable opportunity to access the Chinese market and an important occasion to build cross-industry relationships." Helmy, commercial director of Lina Farm, said that as China's middle-income consumer group continues to expand, Egyptian dates are facing opportunities to enter the Chinese market.
The CIIE has opened broad space for African products. At the ninth CIIE, the enterprise exhibition area exceeded 370,000 square meters for the first time, the Asia-Africa products zone was further upgraded, and the free booth area for least developed countries increased by 17 percent. At the same time, the CIIE upgraded its cross-border e-commerce preferred platform, supporting exhibitors in amplifying their exhibition results through livestreaming.
Policy-level benefits are stacking up. Since May 1 this year, China has fully implemented a zero-tariff measure for 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China. Previously, Egyptian dates exported to China were subject to the most-favored-nation tariff rate of 15 percent; after the zero-tariff policy took effect, the price competitiveness of Egyptian dates in the Chinese market will be further enhanced.
"The CIIE is an important platform for promoting international trade and global economic cooperation." Ahmed, a reporter from Egypt's Nile TV, went to Shanghai in 2022 to cover the CIIE. In his view, the CIIE is grand in scale and provides Egyptian enterprises with opportunities to promote their products in the Chinese market, find new business partners, and attract investment. Egyptian enterprises can also use this to understand Chinese consumers' consumption habits and needs, further exploring export opportunities for Egyptian products such as agricultural products, food, and textiles.
Diaa, secretary-general of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said that with the market as a bond and mutually beneficial cooperation as the foundation, Egypt-China economic and trade cooperation is expected to open up more development space. "The CIIE brings more Egyptian specialty products into thousands of Chinese households, and also enables the people of both countries to gain more tangible benefits from economic and trade cooperation."
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The Asia-Pacific is one of the most dynamic regions of the global economy and an important engine of world economic growth. In 2026, China will serve as host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) for the third time, under the theme of "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Prosperity," deepening exchanges around the three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation," injecting new impetus into Asia-Pacific development and bringing new opportunities for the development of China-Canada relations.
China and Canada are both important Asia-Pacific economies. The two sides are highly complementary in resource endowments and economic structures, and share broad common interests in regional cooperation and in addressing global challenges. In January this year, President Xi Jinping met in Beijing with Canadian Prime Minister Carney, who was on an official visit to China. The leaders of the two countries reached important consensus on advancing the building of a new-type strategic partnership between China and Canada, charting the course for improving and developing bilateral relations. Facing the complex and volatile world situation, the two sides should take the APEC "China Year" as an opportunity to consolidate and expand the positive momentum of improvement and development in bilateral relations and work together to open up a new situation of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.
First, uphold openness and connectivity and share new opportunities for Asia-Pacific development. Over the past decades, the Asia-Pacific region has adhered to open cooperation, promoted trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and achieved development accomplishments drawing worldwide attention (举世瞩目, ju shi zhu mu - "all, world, look, eye"). History and reality have fully proven that the development of all countries depends on an international environment of openness and cooperation; creating obstacles and barriers (筑墙设垒, zhu qiang she lei - "build, wall, set, barrier") and decoupling and breaking supply chains (脱钩断链, tuo gou duan lian - "detach, hook, break, chain") will only disrupt the stability and smooth functioning of global industrial and supply chains and harm the interests of all parties.
Openness is a distinctive hallmark of Chinese modernization. China has continued to deepen economic and trade ties with Asia-Pacific economies. In 2025, China's imports and exports with other APEC economies exceeded 26 trillion yuan, accounting for nearly 60 percent of China's total foreign trade value over the same period. At the ninth China International Import Expo, Canada served as guest country of honor for the second time. This is another a mutual effort from both sides (双向奔赴, shuang xiang ben fu - "two, directions, run, towards"), fully demonstrating that Chinese modernization provides more opportunities for the development of the Asia-Pacific and the world, including Canada. Both China and Canada have benefited from the open international economic system, and both attach importance to upholding multilateralism. The two sides should jointly uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and advance inclusive and beneficial economic globalization.
Second, uphold innovation-driven development and inject new momentum into Asia-Pacific growth. At present, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, the digital economy, and green technologies are flourishing, opening broad space for the transformation and upgrading of Asia-Pacific economies. Within the APEC framework, China is actively promoting the building of a science, technology, and innovation partnership, advancing cooperation on the digital economy and artificial intelligence, advocating a people-centered approach and the responsible use of AI for good, and promoting the green and low-carbon transition.
China and Canada each have their own advantages in the field of innovation, with broad prospects for cooperation. China is accelerating the development of new quality productive forces, possessing a super-large market, a complete industrial system, and rich application scenarios. Canada has a solid innovation foundation and abundant talent resources in areas such as clean energy, life sciences, artificial intelligence, and agricultural technology. The two sides should strive to foster an open, inclusive, and non-discriminatory environment for cooperation, encourage joint research and development among universities, research institutions, and enterprises, make good use of the APEC platform to share experience in digital economy development and governance, promote the transformation and application of innovation results, and make Asia-Pacific economic growth more resilient and sustainable.
Third, uphold win-win cooperation and expand new space for China-Canada practical cooperation. Since the launch of the APEC "China Year," various meetings and activities have been carried out one after another, cooperation topics in various fields have been advanced in depth, and consensus on building an Asia-Pacific community has continued to gather. China is working to deliver new results in trade, connectivity, and innovation, while also focusing on practical cooperation and inclusive development, so that the fruits of cooperation better benefit all parties.
China and Canada should adhere to mutual respect, seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, exist, different"), strategic autonomy, and mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, strive to achieve more tangible results in cooperation in traditional fields such as energy, agriculture, and finance, and tap the cooperation potential in emerging fields such as clean energy, electric vehicles, and biomedicine. At the same time, the two sides should deepen exchanges in education, tourism, youth, and media, strengthen people-to-people bonds, and accumulate more positive factors for the development of bilateral relations.
Those with shared aspirations (志合者, zhi he zhe - "will, combine, person") are not separated by mountains and seas. Although China and Canada are far apart across the ocean, the foundation for cooperation is deep and the development opportunities are broad. China looks forward to taking the upcoming 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen as an opportunity to work with Canada and other APEC members to deepen exchanges, build consensus, and expand cooperation, achieve fruitful results in the development of bilateral relations and Asia-Pacific cooperation, jointly build an Asia-Pacific community, and bring more well-being to the peoples of the two countries and the Asia-Pacific region.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Canada)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 琰
"One of the most unique values of the CIIE is that it builds a high-level cooperation bridge for the synergy between global innovation resources and China's innovation ecosystem. As a new friend participating in the CIIE for the first time, we are extremely excited." Wang Yu, General Manager of CSL Behring China, recently said in an exclusive interview with our reporter that the CIIE is an excellent platform for gaining insight into China, understanding China, and integrating into China. Participating in the CIIE helps the company accelerate R&D innovation and the landing of results.
Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, CSL Behring is a globally leading biopharmaceutical company. Since 1986, CSL Behring has been providing human albumin to Chinese patients and is currently one of the main suppliers of this product in the Chinese market. "Today, we are accelerating the introduction of more global innovative therapies to China and actively exploring cooperation with Chinese partners on innovative drug R&D." Wang Yu introduced that in June 2023, CSL Behring's anti-D immunoglobulin entered the Greater Bay Area with the support of relevant innovative medical policies, benefiting more than 5,000 pregnant women with Rh-negative blood type (panda blood) to date; in July 2025, the company submitted a marketing application in China for its innovative drug for the treatment of hereditary angioedema. "China is not only one of CSL Behring's important business markets globally, but has also become one of the most dynamic engines of global pharmaceutical innovation." Wang Yu said.
This year marks the opening year of China's 15th Five-Year Plan and also the 40th year of CSL Behring's entry into the Chinese market. Under the guidance of new quality productive forces, China's economy is moving toward innovation and excellence, with development resilience and vitality continuing to be demonstrated. "Thanks to the impetus of talent, infrastructure, and high-quality development, China is transforming from a 'global manufacturing base' into a 'global source of innovation.'" Wang Yu told reporters that CSL Behring has also shifted its strategic focus on China from "market opportunities" to "innovation opportunities." This year, the company has fully deployed the "3N China Strategy," namely new products, new cooperation, and new efficiency, taking the entire local industry chain as the strategic foothold, deeply connecting clinical hospitals, research institutions, and frontier AI enterprises and other upstream and downstream partners in the industrial chain, and actively participating in the development of China's biopharmaceutical industry.
Strengthening basic research and original innovation in the health field, promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and expanding and strengthening the health industry are important levers for realizing the Healthy China strategy. "We feel honored to share in the glory of being able to continuously contribute to the Healthy China strategy and provide more choices for Chinese patients." (feeling honored to share in someone else's glory (与有荣焉, yu you rong yan - "with, have, feel, honor")) Wang Yu said that the rapid development of China's innovation ecosystem, the continuous improvement of medical policies, and the strong demand of Chinese patients for diversified medical services provide a broad space for CSL Behring to deepen its presence in the Chinese market. "We need to understand and integrate into China's development process more deeply, take root comprehensively in the entire chain of the local industry, and through diversified innovative cooperation models, work hand in hand with partners to promote China's excellent local achievements to the world." Wang Yu said.
Today, the application of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence has become key to improving quality and efficiency across the entire industrial chain. "CSL Behring is carrying out in-depth cooperation with top domestic hospitals in China, actively exploring the use of artificial intelligence technology to improve the diagnosis rate of rare diseases, and striving to transform frontier innovation into tangible results that improve patients' clinical benefits. Chinese R&D is not only accelerating, but also injecting strong momentum into global pharmaceutical technological innovation." Wang Yu said that since the beginning of this year, CSL Behring's business development and R&D management team has visited China three times, actively exploring cooperation with China's local innovation forces. China's weight in global innovative drug licensing transaction capital continues to rise, which not only breaks the boundaries of traditional cooperation, but also opens up new opportunities for multinational enterprises in China to coexist and prosper together (共生共荣, gong sheng gong rong - "together, live, together, flourish") and empower each other bidirectionally with local innovation forces.
At this year's CIIE, CSL Behring showcased seven products making their debut, four of which were "China debuts." Wang Yu said that during the CIIE, CSL Behring's headquarters management team came to China collectively to investigate and research the future layout of R&D centers and increased investment in China. "Looking ahead, we are full of expectations for China's economic development prospects. Driven by innovation leadership, talent aggregation, and the high-quality development strategy, China will surely create more possibilities for enterprises and patients alike. CSL Behring is honored to participate in this great process and looks forward to continuing to walk side by side with the development of China's healthcare ecosystem to jointly create a healthy and better future." Wang Yu said.
Return to TopIn recent years, Shenzhen, Guangdong, has relied on "hard corridors plus soft connectivity" to continuously deepen economic and trade exchanges with the Asia-Pacific region. According to statistics from Shenzhen Customs, the value of Shenzhen's imports and exports with other APEC economies rose from 267.5 billion yuan in 1996 to 3.13 trillion yuan in 2025, an average annual growth of 8.5%, representing an increase of more than tenfold. In the first half of this year, Shenzhen's imports and exports with other APEC economies grew 33% year on year. The photo shows a cargo ship sailing toward Yantian Port in Shenzhen recently (drone photo).
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Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Vancouver, November 9) He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Chinese lead for the China-Canada Economic and Financial Strategic Dialogue, together with the Canadian lead for the dialogue, Canadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland and Minister of International Trade Mary Ng, co-chaired the second China-Canada Economic and Financial Strategic Dialogue in Vancouver, Canada, on November 9.
He Lifeng stated that, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, China-Canada relations have achieved a turnaround and bilateral exchanges have returned to the right track. This dialogue is a concrete measure to implement the important consensus of the leaders of both sides. China is willing to work with Canada, adhering to the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same; exist, different"), to deepen cooperation in trade, finance, investment and other fields, promote the stable and healthy development of China-Canada economic relations, and help build a new type of strategic partnership between China and Canada.
Freeland stated that Canada attaches great importance to its relations with China and is willing to work with China to implement the consensus of the leaders of the two countries, strengthen policy communication and coordination, and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in the economic and financial fields. Ng stated that she hopes to expand practical cooperation in the trade and economic field between Canada and China and promote greater development of bilateral trade and economic relations.
During the dialogue, the two sides reached a series of achieving mutual benefits and win-win results (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit; together, win") outcomes and consensus. He Lifeng, Freeland, and Ng jointly attended the Canada-China Business Roundtable.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 钟自炜
The 2026 World Cities Day Global Observance and the fourth Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities (Shanghai Award) ceremony, themed "Renewal and Empowerment, Livable Dreams," was recently held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. More than 1,000 Chinese and international guests from over 60 countries and more than 10 international organizations exchanged views on topics such as urban renewal and livable construction.
The fourth Global Award for Sustainable Development in Cities (Shanghai Award) selected 15 finalist cities from 92 applicant cities worldwide, with five cities ultimately winning the award: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Santiago de Cali, Colombia; Istanbul, Turkey; Jingdezhen, China; and Katowice, Poland.
"Listening and acting together with the community will make cities better and more resilient." Gökçer Okumuş, deputy director of the Urban Renewal Planning Bureau of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality in Turkey, said that Istanbul has explored a "build-transfer-rebuild" model, in which the city constructs reserve housing on public land to resettle residents living in poor conditions, while also adding facilities such as nurseries, education zones, and parking lots to improve the quality of living.
Wu Xiande, mayor of Fuzhou, said that Fuzhou has consistently practiced consulting the people about their needs (问需于民, wen xu yu min - "ask needs, from, people"), consulting the people for advice or solutions (问计于民, wen ji yu min - "ask plans, from, people"), and consulting the people about the results or effects (问效于民, wen xiao yu min - "ask effectiveness, from, people") throughout the process. "We continue to advance the renovation of old residential communities, the protection of historical culture, and the construction of public spaces, putting the people-centered philosophy into practice."
Brunei's Minister of Development Juanda Abdul Rashid focused on "housing for all": "Urban development must improve people's lives. Housing provides families with stability, security, and a sense of belonging, which requires us to improve the quality of housing as well as the quality of the communities in which they are located."
For the first time, this event launched a global image collection campaign under the theme "World Cities Day Signature Event (Fuzhou): My City, My Home," receiving public submissions from more than 100 countries and over 320 cities, with related platform topics reaching 110 million views.
"We believe that urban development must put people first." Stefanie Maca Millán, deputy secretary for land management and housing supply under the Secretariat of Social Housing and Human Settlements of the Mayor's Office of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, said, "No city can face challenges alone. We need to join hands, share experiences, and learn from one another. Building better cities means building a better future for everyone."
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, said: "World Cities Day is a milestone that allows us to measure progress against these goals, accelerate progress, close the housing and infrastructure gaps, and exchange development experiences on resilient and sustainable cities."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 9) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on November 9 that Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, special envoy of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban government, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will pay an official visit to China from November 10 to 13.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 9) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on November 9 that, at the invitation of Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Foreign Minister Blanár will visit China from November 10 to 11.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Mei Changwei) Zhang Shengmin, a member of the Central Publicity Group, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered a report on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the Central Military Commission organs on the 9th.
Zhang Shengmin, centering on studying and implementing Chairman Xi's important speech at the plenary session and the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," and linking the great practice of Party building in the new era with the notable achievements in the training and forging of the people's armed forces, gave a comprehensive and systematic exposition and interpretation of the spirit of the plenary session. He pointed out that the great achievements in governing, strengthening, and revitalizing the Party in the new era are fundamentally attributable to providing leadership and guidance (领航掌舵, ling hang zhang duo - "steer the helm, take the rudder") by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The entire military must deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, firmly uphold the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), implement the system of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission assuming responsibility, and resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi.
Zhang Shengmin emphasized that our military is a people's army under the absolute leadership of the Party, and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is of great significance for ensuring that the red river and mountains remain eternally secure through the military's never changing its nature. It is necessary to resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi, and, in accordance with the standard and requirement of "marching in the forefront," unswervingly and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and full and rigorous governance of the military, uphold, apply, and develop the important magic weapon of political army building, and open up a new situation in strengthening the military and rejuvenating the armed forces with new achievements in Party governance.
Responsible comrades from various departments of the Central Military Commission organs and the Central Military Commission Joint Operations Command Center, as well as some officers and soldiers of units stationed in Beijing, attended the report meeting.
(People's Daily, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Qi Yukun) Chen Wenqing, a member of the Central Publicity Group, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, delivered a report on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on November 9.
Centering on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session and the "Decision" adopted at the plenary session, Chen Wenqing, from such aspects as deeply understanding and grasping the great significance of the plenary session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, delivered an in-depth presentation and systematic interpretation of the spirit of the plenary session, and put forward requirements for the political and legal front to implement and carry out the work.
Chen Wenqing emphasized that the great achievements in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era are fundamentally attributable to providing leadership and guidance by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building. The political and legal front must regard studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session as a major political task for the present and for a period to come, closely combine it with studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, consciously unify thoughts and actions with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the spirit of the plenary session, firmly uphold the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, always adhere to the Party's absolute leadership over political and legal work, always adhere to a people-centered approach, advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the political and legal field with higher standards and more concrete measures, forge an iron political and legal contingent that is loyal, clean, and responsible, strive to build a higher-level Safe China and a rule-of-law China, and provide a strong guarantee for the great cause of building a strong country and the great undertaking of national rejuvenation.
Responsible comrades from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, central political and legal units, and the China Law Society, as well as all cadres and staff of the internal organs and directly affiliated units of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, attended the meeting.
(People's Daily, Guangzhou, November 9) (Reporter He Linping) The Central Publicity Group for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee delivered a presentation in Guangdong Province on November 9. Huang Kunming, a member of the Central Publicity Group, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, delivered the presentation report.
At the report meeting, Huang Kunming, closely centering on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," and from such aspects as deeply studying and understanding the great significance of the plenary session and the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, comprehensively and accurately grasping the importance, urgency, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and combining with Guangdong's actual conditions, delivered a comprehensive presentation and in-depth interpretation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
Huang Kunming emphasized that Party members and cadres at all levels must comprehensively and deeply study, implement, and carry out General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, deeply study and carefully comprehend Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, always maintain the sobriety and firmness of being on the examination, persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and provide a strong guarantee for Guangdong to march in the forefront in advancing Chinese modernization.
Before the meeting, Huang Kunming also conducted face-to-face exchanges and interactions with teacher and student representatives of the Party School of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, answering questions from teachers and students on such issues as the agenda and great significance of the plenary session and how to advance the development of various undertakings in light of Guangdong's actual conditions.
(People's Daily, Lanzhou, November 9) (Reporter Zeng Yichen) The Central Publicity Group for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee delivered a presentation in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, on November 9. Zhou Xinqun, a member of the Central Publicity Group and Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office, delivered the presentation report.
At the report meeting, Zhou Xinqun, closely adhering to the presentation theme, centering on the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session and the "Decision" adopted at the plenary session, and from such aspects as deeply understanding the great significance of the plenary session, deeply studying and understanding the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the plenary session, systematically and deeply grasping the several major issues of the Party Central Committee's persistent advancement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and effective methods for studying and understanding the "Decision," delivered a comprehensive presentation and in-depth interpretation of the spirit of the plenary session.
Zhou Xinqun stated during the presentation that it is necessary to deeply understand the strategic considerations of the Party Central Committee in persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, consciously unify thoughts and actions with the decisions and arrangements made at the plenary session, refine target tasks and measures, strengthen follow-up and accountability for results, and ensure resolute action and forceful implementation.
On the afternoon of the 9th, Zhou Xinqun went to Northwest Normal University to present the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to teachers and students, and interacted and exchanged views with them.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Mei Changwei) The first report session of the whole-army study and implementation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing on the 9th. Zhang Shengmin, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with the members of the lecture group.
Zhang Shengmin pointed out that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting held at a critical period for basically realizing socialist modernization, and was of great significance for further opening up a new situation in Party governance and Party self-governance, and in revitalizing and strengthening the Party in the new era. Deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the present and a period to come. In accordance with the unified arrangements of the Party Central Committee, it is necessary to deeply study and comprehend Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and the spirit of Chairman Xi's important speech at the plenary session, focus on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Persisting in Promoting Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," earnestly grasp and implement the study, publicity, and implementation work, and effectively unify the entire army's thinking and actions with Chairman Xi's important speech and the spirit of the plenary session.
Zhang Shengmin emphasized that it is necessary to do a good job in the lecture work with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, closely link the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era with the brand-new appearance forged through the training and tempering of the people's army, understand and publicize the spirit of the plenary session well, guide the broad mass of officers and soldiers to firmly uphold the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), implement the system of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission assuming responsibility, resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi, strive with an even more vigorous mental state to achieve the goal of building the people's army into a world-class military by 2027, and greet the successful convening of the 21st National Congress of the CPC with practical actions.
The report session was held in the form of a video and telephone conference. After the session, the members of the lecture group will be divided into groups to conduct itinerant lectures throughout the army.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Macao, November 9) (Reporter Fu Zimei) The "International Forum on Mutual Learning Among Civilizations 2026," hosted by the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, opened on November 9, bringing together nearly 300 representatives of government departments, international organizations, and top experts and scholars from more than 20 countries around the world for nearly 40 special lectures and academic exchanges, giving play to Macao's role as an "exchange and cooperation base with Chinese culture as the mainstream and diverse cultures coexisting," promoting exchange through academia and mutual learning through exchange. Sam Hou Fai, Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, attended the forum's opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Sam Hou Fai stated that Macao is an important node on the Maritime Silk Road, where cultures of different regions, faiths, and traditions live together in harmony (和谐共生, he xie gong sheng - "harmonious, coexist"). The strategic positioning that the nation has conferred upon Macao as an "important window for exchange and mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations" is precisely full affirmation of Macao's experience of diverse cultural coexistence. Macao will further practice and promote the values of peace, inclusiveness, openness, and sharing embodied in One Country, Two Systems, providing a platform for exchange and mutual learning for the mutual understanding of different civilizations.
Li Guoqiang, member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Macao Historical Research Center of the Institute of Chinese History, stated that the successful practice of One Country, Two Systems has created a great miracle of economic prosperity, social stability, and improvement of people's livelihoods, and has safeguarded Macao's civilizational diversity. The view of civilizations characterized by equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness has been given an intuitive interpretation in Macao.
During the keynote speech segment, multiple international experts and scholars delivered speeches. The forum included sub-forums and academic salons, where representatives of government departments and international organizations from various countries, as well as experts and scholars, engaged in in-depth dialogue and exchange around themes such as "Civilizational Dialogue Across Mountains and Seas."
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Bai Ying) The television documentary film "Sun Yat-sen," jointly produced by China Media Group and the Publicity Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, began airing on the 8th on CCTV's Comprehensive Channel and Documentary Channel of China Media Group.
According to introductions, the film takes as its theme Mr. Sun Yat-sen's lofty bearing of loving the motherland and dedicating himself to the motherland, and his broad feelings of the principle of the whole world being for all people (天下为公, tian xia wei gong - "heaven, earth, be, public") and keeping the people close to his heart, with his revolutionary career as the main thread, deeply explaining Mr. Sun Yat-sen's patriotic thought, revolutionary will, and enterprising spirit, and elaborating on its major practical significance and far-reaching historical significance at present for consolidating and developing the great unity of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, consolidating and developing the broadest patriotic united front, promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and advancing the great cause of national reunification.
Return to TopIn Xinjiang, populus euphratica trees take root in the vast land, growing or existing together (相伴而生, xiang ban er sheng - "accompany, together, and, be born") with the oases, becoming a cultural tourism calling card with distinctive regional character that draws visitors from all over. The photo shows tourists on November 8 taking a boat ride to view the populus euphratica forest at the Hulu Island scenic area in Yuli County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.
Photo by Han Jun (China Images)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Shen Shaotie) A reporter learned from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on November 9 that the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recently co-hosted the first China-Africa Forum on Public Health in Guangzhou, Guangdong. Representatives from more than 20 African countries and regions, as well as international organizations and disease control research institutions including the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and the United Nations Population Fund, attended the forum.
The theme of this forum was "Jointly Building a New Defense Line for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control in China and Africa, and Advancing the Implementation of the China-Africa Health Partnership Action." Exchanges were conducted on topics such as global infectious disease challenges, disease surveillance, diagnostics and vaccine innovation, and special discussions were held on the accessibility and localized production of public health products in Africa, the prevention and control of tropical diseases, tuberculosis prevention and treatment, and scientific and technological innovation.
During the forum, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and the United Nations Children's Fund jointly launched a public health technical assistance project and a South-South cooperation program. The Chinese and African centers for disease control jointly signed and released the "China-Africa Initiative on Jointly Building a New Defense Line for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Changsha, November 9) (Reporter Yang Xun) On November 9, the opening ceremony and main forum of the 2026 Culture and Technology Industry Development Forum were held in Changsha, Hunan. The forum is co-hosted by Science and Technology Daily, the Publicity Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province. Centering on the themes of technology empowering culture and industry driving development, it focuses on the deep integration of culture and technology, highlighting industrial implementation, technological innovation, business model cultivation, and ecosystem building, comprehensively empowering the development of new quality productive forces in culture. The forum runs until November 10, during which major events such as the opening ceremony of the Malanshan Audio-Visual Equipment Expo and the Hunan Culture and Technology Investment, Financing, and Scenario Matching Conference will be held.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁 倪 弋
On November 6, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Public Interest Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China for Procuratorial Organs was formally voted and passed — a landmark event in the course of China's rule-of-law construction.
In October 2014, the "Decision" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party included a formulation of pioneering significance: "Explore the establishment of a system for procuratorial organs to initiate public interest litigation."
Over 12 years, from pilot programs in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to the full rollout of the system through legislation, from scattered provisions on procuratorial public interest litigation in individual laws to a systematic and complete special law — this is not merely the birth of a law, but a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in the field of public interest protection.
How did a formulation in a document from back then "grow into" a law?
In this answer lie the power of thought, the sentiment of serving the people, the governance wisdom rooted in China's cultural soil, and the institutional contribution that enriches the rule-of-law civilization of humanity.
An Original Achievement in Solving a Worldwide Difficult Problem
On Wanfeng Lake, located in the upper reaches of the Pearl River, flocks of wintering migratory birds occasionally sweep across the vast expanse of blue waves.
Returning here seven years later, Liu Jiapu, a prosecutor in the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, made a delightful discovery — the "giant panda in the water," the freshwater jellyfish, which had disappeared for many years, has returned!
"The basin spans the three provinces and regions of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi, and at one time 'nine dragons governed the waters,' each managing its own stretch, leaving pollution problems unresolved for years." Liu Jiapu explained that in 2019, the Supreme People's Procuratorate for the first time directly filed a case for public interest litigation — the Wanfeng Lake special case — integrating the strength of procuratorial organs at four levels, focusing on breaking down institutional, mechanistic, and safeguard obstacles, and guarding a lake of clear water.
In real life, similar problems are called "the tragedy of the commons." For cases where administrative organs exercise their powers illegally or fail to act, causing harm to national interests and social public interests, since citizens, legal persons, or unincorporated organizations have no direct stake in the matter, they cannot initiate public interest litigation.
How to solve this worldwide difficult problem? From the very beginning, the exploration of the procuratorial public interest litigation system has carried the mission of the rule of law.
At the start of the institutional exploration, General Secretary Xi Jinping placed high hopes on it: "Public interest litigation initiated by procuratorial organs is conducive to optimizing the allocation of judicial powers and improving the administrative litigation system, and is also conducive to advancing the building of a law-based government."
General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and personally deployed, enabling procuratorial public interest litigation to achieve a leap from nothing to something, from germination to development —
From 2015 to 2017, he twice presided over meetings of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which successively reviewed and approved the pilot plan for procuratorial organs to initiate public interest litigation reform and the report on the pilot situation and recommendations for next steps;
In 2018, he presided over a meeting of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which reviewed and approved the plan for establishing the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate;
In 2020, at the Central Conference on Work Related to Comprehensive Law-Based Governance, he emphasized "continuing to improve the public interest litigation system and effectively safeguard social public interests."
The 20th National Congress of the Party and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee both made arrangements for public interest litigation work.
A single key measure that influences the entire situation (壹引其纲，万目皆张, yi yin qi gang, wan mu jie zhang - "one, pull, its, net; ten thousand, eyes, all, open").
A timeline bears witness to the trajectory of development: from the NPC Standing Committee's authorization of pilot programs in 2015, to full implementation in 2017, to the enactment of special legislation in 2026 — from top-level design to legislative implementation, the Party's propositions have been transformed into the will of the state, consolidating a consensus across society on public interest protection.
A set of achievements demonstrates the combined strength of the system: before the special legislation, 26 existing laws already provided for public interest litigation provisions; 30 provincial-level NPC Standing Committees issued special decisions on strengthening procuratorial public interest litigation; 27 provincial-level Party committees and governments issued opinions supporting procuratorial public interest litigation… Through deep integration into the national governance system, institutional strength has been consolidated and activated.
Rooted in litigation, yet transcending litigation.
Looking at the world, constrained by political systems, whether in common law or civil law countries, there has been essentially no systematic exploration of procuratorial administrative public interest litigation.
Yet over 12 years, Chinese procuratorial organs have handled more than 1.35 million public interest litigation cases, over 90 percent of which were administrative public interest litigation cases, with approximately 95 percent achieving resolution of public interest harm before trial — blazing a successful path with Chinese characteristics.
"From 'I must change' to 'I want to change,' from litigating in a court of law (对簿公堂, dui bu gong tang - "against, court, public, hall") to moving toward each other in mutual cooperation (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing - "towards, towards, each, walk"), procuratorial public interest litigation has grown out of collaborative governance, achieving effective protection of public interests within the framework of the rule of law." Cao Liu, deputy director of the Rule of Law Government Research Institute at China University of Political Science and Law, said that the reason this mechanism works lies in the institutional advantage under the Party's leadership — all parties do not contend for their own interests, but instead plan together for the public interest.
This original achievement also provides a new solution to the "tragedy of the commons" problem: a specialized state organ serves as the representative of public interests, leveraging administrative supervision and promoting governance through rule-of-law means, deeply integrating public interest protection into the grand framework of modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, procuratorial public interest litigation draws nourishment from and selectively applies the fine traditional Chinese culture of the principle that everything under heaven belongs to the public (天下为公, tian xia wei gong - "under, heaven, for, public") and maintaining harmony to avoid disputes and litigation (和合无讼, he he wu song - "harmony, harmony, without, litigation"), promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese legal culture, and endowing Chinese rule-of-law civilization with new contemporary connotations.
An Institutional Exploration Combining Top-Level Design with Exploring New Paths by Trial and Error (摸着石头过河, mo zhe shi tou guo he - "touch, with, stone, cross, river")
"Advancing reform under the rule of law, and perfecting the rule of law through reform" — this is the requirement emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Last year, Tang Qiujing, a prosecutor at the Binjiang District People's Procuratorate in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, discovered a lead: multiple cases of telecom fraud involving concert tickets had occurred locally, and behind them was the illegal subleasing of code numbers by telecommunications business operators.
As a new type of public interest litigation case, after being reported level by level to the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Binjiang District People's Procuratorate filed the nation's first civil public interest litigation involving code number resources for anti-telecom and online fraud, and ultimately the Hangzhou Internet Court ruled that the defendant pay public interest damages totaling 500,000 yuan.
Tang Qiujing recalled that the first question she asked herself at the start of handling the case was not "how to file this case," but "can we actually manage this kind of matter at all?" Seeing that this special legislation has explicitly included "anti-telecom and online fraud" in the scope of public interest litigation, she feels even more confident.
Every question asked is drawing boundaries for the system; every answer given is adding content to the system.
At the start of the pilot program, the explicit authorized scope of procuratorial public interest litigation covered only four fields, but the NPC Standing Committee's authorization decision left a "loophole," which meant leaving room for exploration.
For example, children "doxxed" in the digital space, blind lanes in public places occupied as parking spaces, wall bricks in historical sites covered with carved names… Behind every newly added field lies a pain point in public interest protection; every expansion of the scope of supervision responds to the urgent needs of the people.
In 2019, after the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee explicitly proposed "expanding the scope of public interest litigation cases," the Supreme People's Procuratorate promptly adjusted the exploration principle for new types of cases from "steady and proactive" to "proactive and steady."
With the word order changed, the rhythm changed — the focus shifted from "stability" to "progress," and the exploration of procuratorial public interest litigation pressed the accelerator.
"Reform and the rule of law advance in tandem, enhancing the penetrating power of reform." By the time the special legislation was passed, the public interest litigation provisions in current laws covered 15 fields, and this legislation has added content on the protection of workers' rights and interests, the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly, the protection of the rights and interests of persons with disabilities, and the protection of national defense interests, ensuring that the procuratorial public interest litigation system always operates on the track of the rule of law.
"The vitality of law lies in its implementation, and the authority of law also lies in its implementation."
In fulfilling the responsibility of judicial protection of public interests, the procuratorial and judicial organs cooperate and coordinate, through supervision by the people's procuratorates and adjudication by the people's courts, transforming judicial synergy into tangible results in public interest protection, demonstrating the common rule-of-law responsibility of the people's procuratorates and the people's courts in the new era.
In 2025, procuratorial organs in Baoding City, Hebei Province, discovered that a company had used packaging bearing the portraits of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain for commercial advertising.
"For acts that use the name of 'red culture' to pursue commercial profit, harming the portraits, reputations, and honor of martyrs, procuratorial organs have an unshirkable duty." The prosecutor handling the case said that after obtaining the consent of the close relatives of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, the procuratorial organ lawfully initiated civil public interest litigation. The court held a public hearing of the case and ruled in support of all the procuratorial organ's claims.
As a descendant of the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, Song Fubao, comparing the changes before and after the establishment of the procuratorial public interest litigation system, said with emotion: "Now the judicial organs have stepped forward, ensuring that the glory of the martyrs is strictly protected in accordance with the law. I sincerely hope the new law will play an even greater role."
Combining top-level design with exploring new paths by trial and error, reform and the rule of law complementing each other to achieve a better result (相辅相成, xiang fu xiang cheng - "mutually, assist, mutually, complete") and being born together, jointly sound the strong rule-of-law note of procuratorial public interest litigation from initial pioneering to development and improvement.
Governance Effectiveness in Serving the Overall Situation and Safeguarding People's Livelihoods Through the Rule of Law
The birth and development of the procuratorial public interest litigation system profoundly reflects the having great foresight and profound insight (远见卓识, yuan jian zhuo shi - "far, vision,卓越, knowledge") of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity through rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods.
"We must always adhere to protecting the ecological environment with the strictest systems and the most rigorous rule of law."
Zhang Hong, then chief prosecutor of the Gezhouba People's Procuratorate in Yichang City, Hubei Province, recalled that during a late-night inspection, she saw boat operators discharging domestic garbage and sewage directly into the Yangtze River.
Yichang, the site of the Three Gorges Dam, sees approximately 50,000 vessel trips waiting at locks and conducting operations each year, with 500,000 crew members passing through; vessel pollution control once became a difficult problem. The situation facing Yichang was a common problem along the entire Yangtze River shipping route.
In May 2022, the Supreme People's Procuratorate decided to directly file a special case on public interest litigation for vessel pollution control in the Yangtze River, with 531 procuratorates simultaneously carrying out a "large-corps operation." After two years of tackling the problem, 602 cases were filed, and local administrative organs in 11 provinces and cities along the river were urged to build a "ship-port-city, collection-transfer-disposal" full-process supervision system in the Yangtze River basin.
In recent years, a batch of cross-regional ecological environment protection special cases, such as those concerning Nansi Lake and the Pearl River water environment, have been filed one after another, and the unique value of procuratorial public interest litigation in solving major governance problems is increasingly evident.
"Use the most rigorous standards, the strictest supervision, the severest penalties, and the most serious accountability to ensure the 'safety on the tip of the tongue' of the broad masses of the people."
A certain agricultural and sideline products wholesale market in Jiangsu Province serves more than 50 counties and cities in the Yangtze River Delta, but in recent years, relevant platforms have received many complaints about food safety issues at this market. What was going on? The Changzhou procuratorial organ in Jiangsu immediately initiated public interest litigation procedures.
"The primary responsibility of the market operator was hollowed out" and "administrative organs were absent in supervision." After the procuratorial organ identified the problems, a procuratorial recommendation was issued to the market supervision department, urging it to perform its duties in accordance with the law and promoting the establishment of a three-dimensional supervision system of "information disclosure + electronic traceability + on-site supervision."
Since last year, the "Food and Drug Safety Benefit Journey" procuratorial public interest litigation supervision campaign has been advancing in depth nationwide, achieving new breakthroughs in whole-chain supervision, full-responsibility coverage, and whole-society coordination.
Medical care and elderly care for senior citizens "is both a family matter and a national matter."
The text on drug instructions is "as small as ants," and elderly people still cannot read it clearly even with a magnifying glass. Dai Yin, a deputy to the National People's Congress, has called for "elderly-friendly adaptation" for many years. At a training session for deputies, upon hearing an introduction to public interest litigation, she immediately raised her hand to ask: "Can procuratorial public interest litigation be used to solve this problem?"
In May 2023, the Supreme People's Procuratorate directly filed a case on this matter and guided procuratorial organs in multiple localities to advance the work simultaneously. These measures ultimately promoted institutional reform at the national level — the Supreme People's Procuratorate communicated with and reached consensus with the National Medical Products Administration, which launched a pilot program for elderly-friendly and barrier-free adaptation of drug instructions, with the first batch of pilots covering 657 drugs.
"Driven by procuratorial public interest litigation, the process has been greatly accelerated." At this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference sessions, Dai Yin specifically added a suggestion: hoping that procuratorial public interest litigation can assist relevant departments in sorting out regulations to make them comply with the requirements of the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-Free Environment.
From pollution control on the Yangtze River, to the "vegetable basket" that reassures and comforts citizens, to drug instructions that the elderly can also read clearly… every change vividly demonstrates the governance effectiveness of procuratorial public interest litigation.
Chinese Solutions That Enrich the Rule-of-Law Civilization of Humanity
The rule of law is an important achievement of human political civilization.
"China has accumulated considerable experience in giving play to the role of prosecutors in public interest protection and advancing the building of the rule of law, and is also willing to actively draw on the world's relevant achievements in rule-of-law civilization." General Secretary Xi Jinping has the lofty cause of human peace and development at heart.
In September this year, a letter of thanks from Martin Harper, Chief Executive Officer of BirdLife International, was delivered to Lu Hongtao, a prosecutor in the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate — the letter praised the pioneering work of China's procuratorial public interest litigation as "setting an example of protecting migratory flyways through legal and institutional action" and "providing practical potential for replication and promotion."
China is an important corridor for the cross-border migration of migratory birds. Previously, a public interest litigation case involving "people competing with birds for food" handled by the Chongming District People's Procuratorate in Shanghai, because it protected birds while also taking into account the legitimate interests of farmers in using nets to protect crops and aquatic products, attracted the interest of foreign experts.
"Foreign experts believe that China's procuratorial public interest litigation is full of governance wisdom that balances development and protection, and they also see China's concrete actions in promoting harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature." Lu Hongtao said.
In recent years, the "good stories" of China's procuratorial public interest litigation have gone abroad: stories of protecting mangroves, spotted seals, and Chinese white dolphins have frequently appeared at conferences of the parties to international conventions; stories of urging the rectification of "hard bones" such as mining pollution in the "Manganese Triangle" and illegal mining by mining enterprises in Hunyuan have been repeatedly mentioned at international conferences… These cases are like seeds, carrying the advanced concepts and unique value of China's procuratorial public interest litigation system, taking root and sprouting in the soil of global rule-of-law civilization.
"The rule of law is an internationally common language." Ma Huaide, president of Renmin University of China, believes that the procuratorial public interest litigation system vividly interprets, through the discourse of the rule of law, the common values of all humanity embodied in Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, presents a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China from the perspective of the rule of law, enhances the international community's understanding and recognition of China's rule of law, and demonstrates China's image as a major country under the rule of law and a major civilized country.
Improving oneself to help others succeed (立己达人, li ji da ren - "establish, self, reach, others"), sharing beauty and prosperity with others (美美与共, mei mei yu gong - "beautiful, beautiful, with, share").
In 2025, at the special invitation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of Vietnam, a delegation from China's Supreme People's Procuratorate visited Vietnam to systematically introduce China's procuratorial public interest litigation system.
"I didn't expect the seminar to turn into a 'Q&A session'!" Xie Wenyi, a prosecutor in the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said that more than 700 local procuratorates in Vietnam participated simultaneously via remote video link, and they had done a great deal of preparation before the meeting, with more than 100 collected questions covering everything from institutional construction to case-handling operations.
The World Conservation Congress, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, the high-level side event of prosecutors general at the United Nations Climate Change Conference… In recent years, Chinese procuratorial organs have fully leveraged international conventions, international organizations, and other vehicles and platforms to let the rule-of-law wisdom of procuratorial public interest litigation cross mountains and seas.
As a vivid practice and original achievement of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law in the field of public interest protection, from "exploring the establishment" to special legislation, procuratorial public interest litigation has blazed an effective governance path, providing a new paradigm for countries around the world to solve public interest protection problems, and becoming Chinese solutions that enrich the rule-of-law civilization of humanity.
This path of public interest judicial protection with Chinese characteristics is bound to grow ever broader!
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Giving full play to the political advantages of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, promoting high-quality development through high-quality Party building, "China's governance" injects stability and certainty into a turbulent world
In recent times, "Chinese-style sense of security" has continued to spark heated discussion on overseas social media platforms.
Look at "Safe China." China is worthy of being one of the safest countries in the world, with one of the lowest criminal crime rates and one of the lowest homicide case rates. Foreign tourists praise that "you can go out at night without fear" and "nothing gets stolen even when unattended" — what upholds this "national calling card" is promoting joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits through grassroots Party building.
Look at the "two rice bowls." Summer grain output exceeded 300 billion jin for the first time, and the year's grain harvest is expected to be another bumper one; installed photovoltaic power generation capacity exceeded coal power for the first time, and crude oil and natural gas output of industrial enterprises above designated size in the first three quarters both hit record highs for the same period in history. The confidence to remain unshaken no matter how the wind and rain strike reflects a far-sighted strategic vision — "the food problem cannot be viewed only from an economic perspective; it must be viewed from a political perspective" and "energy security is an overall and strategic issue bearing on the country's economic and social development." Grasping food security and energy security from the height of politics, the "two rice bowls" are held more firmly, and the security foundation for high-quality development is made more solid.
To govern the country, one must first govern the Party; only when the Party thrives can the country grow strong. Giving full play to the political advantages of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, promoting high-quality development through high-quality Party building, "China's governance" injects stability and certainty into a turbulent world.
From this, one can better appreciate the profound connotation and far-reaching significance of the strategic tasks and major measures deployed by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party.
The Party's political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party, determining the direction and effectiveness of Party building. The Plenary Session reviewed and adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persisting in Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," which clearly sets forth the principles to be followed in persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, with "adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide" ranking among them.
Speaking politics with a clear-cut stand is a political advantage our Party has maintained consistent and enduring throughout the process (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, through, connect, continue").
On the Long March, when the comrade cooks got up in the morning, they did not first ask whether there was rice to cook, but first asked whether to march south or north. It was precisely because they held fast to the political direction that the Red Army completed an "epic expedition unparalleled or incomparable (无与伦比, wu yu lun bi - "not, with, compare, match") in history."
On the eve of July 1 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote back to veteran Party member Zhang Liansheng, commending his sentiment of trusting and loving the Party in "forever following the Party." During the war years, the "drip, drip" transmitted by the radio operators of the "Fourth Brigade" of the Central Column to which Zhang Liansheng belonged was the voice of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao, and the entire Party and the entire army executed it unconditionally.
"Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must first be viewed from a political perspective." "Adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide" is one of the core connotations of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, embodying the practical exploration of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era.
Look at the rectification of illegal construction in the Qinling Mountains.
Once, illegal villas kept appearing in the Xi'an section of the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, like sores devouring the greenery of the mountains. General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly required "first investigate from the perspective of political discipline," resolutely promoted the investigation and handling of this problem, and returned tranquility and beauty to the Qinling Mountains.
Environmental pollution in the Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve, illegal coal mining in the Muli mining area, illegal and irregular construction of low dikes around Dongting Lake... Behind ecological problems lie political ecology problems. If problems are not understood and solved from a political perspective, they cannot be fundamentally solved.
Since the new era began, adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide and running political standards and political requirements through all aspects of Party building, the atmosphere of speaking politics with a clear-cut stand throughout the entire Party has become more pronounced.
Look at the Pinglu Canal.
Cargo throughput exceeded one million tons in the first month, and the National Day holiday saw a cultural tourism boom... This backbone project of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, connecting rivers to the sea, took only four years from breaking ground to completion and opening to navigation.
Guangxi implemented the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, with Party building leading the assembly of the "Pinglu Canal battle team" to accomplish this "project of the century"; it made supervision of the Pinglu Canal construction the "number one project" for strengthening political supervision, carried out round-the-clock on-site supervision, and built a "clean and honest project."
Look at the in-depth advancement of building the unified national market.
"Resolutely breaking down local protectionism, market segmentation, and 'involution-style' competition" is a political requirement for safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and realizing a coordinated national approach.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection incorporated the building of the unified national market into key tasks of political supervision. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels kept a close eye on chronic problems such as chaos in government procurement bidding and "involution" in local investment attraction... Strengthening political supervision clears the meridians and invigorates the blood for building the unified national market.
Adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide is ultimately reflected in the practical work of all aspects of Party building, enabling all aspects of Party building to exert force in the same direction and form a combined force.
Looking to the future, firmly grasping the principle of "adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide," guiding the vast number of Party members and cadres to firmly uphold the Two Establishments (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), continuously enhancing political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, and always thinking and working together with the people, we will surely be able to work with one heart and one mind to create new historical achievements.
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A fair and orderly business environment is an important guarantee for the healthy development of the service industry. The value of the campaign against gang crime and vice extends beyond solving cases and making arrests; it lies even more in repairing the damaged industry ecology.
Extorting construction site property by manufacturing labor disputes, posting and hyping articles in the name of public opinion supervision to force enterprises to "pay money to ward off disaster," and collecting "protection fees" from merchants and shop staff by threatening online violence... Recently, the eight typical cases of new-type gang-related crimes and vice published by the Ministry of Public Security have demonstrated the new trends in the campaign against gang crime and vice.
In recent years, public security organs nationwide have maintained a high-pressure posture of severe crackdown on gang-related crimes and vice, which have been effectively curbed, and the public security situation has continued to improve. However, it must also be noted that gang-related crimes and vice are extremely stubborn and mutative; under the deterrence of high pressure, they have shifted into the transaction scenarios, labor chains, and online platforms of the service industry, giving rise to new forms such as online "disguised loans," soft-violence debt collection, and public-opinion blackmail. To protect consumer rights and maintain the business environment of the service industry, it is necessary to fight a "new battle" in the campaign against gang crime and vice.
Solving the "difficulty of identification" is the key.
The identification of traditional gang-related crimes and vice relies on relatively clear signals of violence and organizational forms; whereas new-type gang-related crimes and vice often use soft violence as a means, online platforms as cover, and a legitimate appearance as packaging, with criminal traces scattered among complaint records, platform data, and labor disputes, easily treated as "ordinary consumer disputes" or "ordinary contract disputes."
The Public Security Department of Hubei Province compiled and distributed work guidelines and typical cases to the grassroots; what kind of complaint patterns resemble malicious claims, what kind of overdue debt collection methods resemble "disguised loans," have become the "battle maps" for frontline police officers in handling cases, used to carry out crackdowns on similar cases.
The Market Supervision Administration of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, integrated data from law enforcement inspections, daily supervision, complaints and reports, and the "three letters and one letter of suggestion," organized professional teams to conduct analysis and research, and successfully identified and transferred to public security organs for investigation the nation's first new-type online gang-related crime and vice case in the medical aesthetics field.
Judicial organs strengthening precise identification and discovery, while simultaneously strengthening coordination and linkage with administrative regulatory departments and platform enterprises, and establishing green channels such as rapid transfer of leads, helps to better expose the false facade of gang-related crimes and vice.
Source supervision is the guarantee.
The service industry has new business forms, many links, and frequent transactions, and there is often an information gap among platforms, merchants, and consumers. If platform verification is lax, complaint handling is nonstandard, and dispute mediation is untimely, gang forces may take advantage of loopholes. Therefore, to promote the service industry to "build a strong body," it is necessary to enhance its "immunity" through rigorous mechanisms.
On the one hand, it is necessary to consolidate the primary responsibility of platforms, urge internet platforms and industry associations to establish and improve risk early-warning mechanisms, dynamically monitor data such as abnormally high-frequency complaints, concentrated malicious negative reviews, and abnormal labor disputes, and promptly detect and block the infiltration paths of gang forces. On the other hand, it is necessary to improve industry access and exit mechanisms, strengthen compliance review of emerging business forms such as credit intermediaries and public-opinion services, so that gang forces disguised in the cloak of "services" have nowhere to hide.
A fair and orderly business environment is an important guarantee for the healthy development of the service industry. The value of the campaign against gang crime and vice extends beyond solving cases and making arrests; it lies even more in repairing the damaged industry ecology.
The Public Security Bureau of Guilin City, Guangxi, investigated a cross-regional public-opinion blackmail and extortion criminal gang case; the Market Supervision Administration of Guilin City strengthened coordination and cooperation, comprehensively sorted out the situation of professional claims, false advertising, and malicious complaints in the tourism market in recent years, and made efforts to address the chaos in the tourism market.
By linking lead investigation, case handling, and industry governance, smashing one gang, plugging one type of loophole, and repairing one ecology, allowing the roots of supervision to penetrate into the soil of the daily operation of the service industry, the campaign against gang crime and vice can move from treating symptoms to treating the root causes.
According to statistics, in 2025, public security organs nationwide smashed a total of 84 mafia-style organizations and 2,127 criminal gangs of evil forces. Carrying out the campaign against gang crime and vice on a regular basis creates a stable, transparent, standardized, and predictable rule-of-law environment for all types of business entities, allowing the public to consume with confidence and enterprises to operate with peace of mind, and will surely provide solid support for high-quality development of the economy and society.
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What yardstick scientific journals use to measure innovative achievements bears directly on the direction of research and the research ecosystem. Which achievements are seen, which voices are amplified, and which paths are encouraged all have a direct and far-reaching impact on the conduct of research activities and the flow of innovation resources.
Not long ago, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, together with relevant research institutions, selected and compiled the 2025 catalog of world-class scientific and technological journals. There is a notable change in the evaluation logic: while retaining internationally common indicators such as total citation frequency and impact factor, new types of indicators such as a publication index and a sentiment citation index have been designed.
This matter is worth discussing in some detail. At present, the mainstream international evaluation system for scientific and technological journals is mainly built on the citation databases under Clarivate and Elsevier, with the quantitative indicator of the impact factor at its core. These databases include many journals and have a deep historical accumulation, giving them strong international credibility, but they also have some drawbacks that urgently need to be addressed.
The impact factor can reflect the overall citation popularity of a journal, but it cannot identify the quality of an individual paper, nor does it distinguish whether a single citation represents endorsement, criticism, or a routine listing of references.
In recent years, reflection within the international academic community on this evaluation system has deepened. On the one hand, there are calls to stop using indicators such as the impact factor to evaluate the contribution of an individual research paper or an individual scholar, or to use them as a basis for hiring, promotion, funding, and the like. On the other hand, principles such as "quantitative evaluation should support rather than replace qualitative expert review" have been put forward, promoting the improvement of the evaluation system for scientific and technological journals.
As China's scientific and technological journals expand internationally, proposing new evaluation standards is both a need to enhance our own discursive power and a response to the transformation of the international science and technology evaluation system. For example, the sentiment citation index is designed to distinguish citation attitudes, thereby determining whether a paper is "endorsed," "merely mentioned," or "criticized." Highlighting innovation quality and actual contribution, "establishing new standards" and "breaking the four onlys" are complementing one another (相辅相成, xiang xiang cheng - "mutually, assist, complete, each other"), both serving to make the evaluation system more consistent with the laws of scientific research.
There is another bias that needs to be corrected. Traditional international scientific citation databases have long had a language bias, and their evaluation of non-English journals and authors is skewed. Non-English journals are often undervalued under the impact factor evaluation system, which magnifies the imbalance in global research resources and is also detrimental to the growth of a pluralistic knowledge system.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the conditions for cross-language communication are increasingly mature, and the linguistic shackles on academic evaluation are being continuously broken. Countries such as Finland, Norway, Russia, and Brazil have all launched their own catalogs of international scientific and technological journals. In recent years, China has made efforts to promote "same-quality equivalence" between Chinese and foreign scientific and technological journals. Since 2020, the China Association for Science and Technology has published the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) Report every year, with a focus on strengthening the suitability of evaluation for high-quality non-English journals and emerging interdisciplinary fields. The 2025 catalog of world-class scientific and technological journals makes a particular effort to break through the limitations of language and journal age, including high-quality journals from 55 countries and regions and covering 23 languages.
For China's scientific and technological journals to go global, they must not only expand the circle of recognition but also display an inclusive and all-embracing (兼容并包, jian rong bing bao - "compatible, and, combine, all") breadth of mind.
Not being "only about the impact factor" and not being "only about foreign-language journals" does not mean rejecting these evaluation systems outright; rather, it means absorbing their beneficial elements and making new explorations, so that academic evaluation returns to its original purpose, knowledge production becomes more pluralistic, and innovation vitality is fully released. Promoting the building of an innovation evaluation system oriented toward quality, actual effectiveness, and contribution is both the due responsibility of China's participation in international science and technology governance and the responsibility of a major country in promoting international exchange and cooperation in scientific and technological innovation.
In the current landscape of international competition, scientific and technological journals are platforms for displaying, exchanging, and disseminating research results, and they are also stages for demonstrating cultural soft power. On the premise of respecting the laws of scientific research, deepening the reform of science and technology evaluation, and using a few more yardsticks to measure innovation will surely continue to optimize the research environment and enable more promising seeds and valuable achievements to stand out from the crowd (脱颖而出, tuo ying er chu - "remove, awl, emerge, out").
Return to TopFarmers are the mainstay of agricultural production, and their quality bears directly on the high-quality development of agriculture. In recent years, China has continuously strengthened the building of the rural talent workforce and advanced the work of cultivating high-quality farmers. Data show that last year, 613,600 high-quality farmers were cultivated, and a large number of leaders in industrial development emerged, with the demonstration and driving effect continuously strengthening, providing a solid talent guarantee for advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and building a strong agricultural country.
This is precisely:
A new spirit rises in the countryside,
Skilled hands gather in the villages.
Clever techniques invigorate industries,
Strengthening agriculture, full of vigor and spirit (气如虹, qi ru hong - "breath, like, rainbow").
Xu Zhiwen
Return to TopElectronic pennant banners let gratitude shed its "weight"
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province Xie Zongrui
When patients present a pennant banner to a doctor, it is a way of expressing recognition and a token of appreciation. But this token is not always easy to deliver. A finely crafted pennant banner is hardly cheap to begin with, and some patients make a special trip from out of town to deliver one, making the expense all the greater. Hospitals with high medical standards and good service quality receive a considerable number of pennant banners every year. Behind the weighty goodwill also lies a cost that is easily overlooked. In recent years, many hospitals have successively added an "electronic pennant banner" entry point to their mini-programs.
From a technical standpoint, this is hardly a major innovation. But what is valuable is that it lowers the threshold for expressing appreciation, allowing gratitude to return to being gratitude itself. Those who live far away and cannot easily make the trip, those who wish to express thanks but find themselves having very little money (囊中羞涩, nang zhong xiu se - "pouch, inside, scanty, embarrassed"), and those who, being socially anxious, dare not present a pennant banner in public — their appreciation can now also be fully displayed. For hospitals, in the future it may also be possible to explore new forms of evaluating the quality of medical services based on the electronic pennant banners patients present.
The knack of improving services often lies in whether one is willing to listen to the inconveniences that go unspoken. An electronic pennant banner lightens the burden on patients and adds warmth to the service, making the mutual affection between doctor and patient warmer and more sincere.
Do not use shortcomings as a "shield"
Gui'an New Area, Guizhou Province Lu Wei
"I can't do it" "I don't understand" — these days, such phrases have become the catchphrases of certain cadres. Beneath the "modest" pretext, the reality is that shortcomings are being used as a "shield" for shifting blame and evading responsibility. Being unwilling to take on new tasks, reluctant to do new work, and afraid to tackle hard problems — on the surface this is a matter of insufficient capability, but the root lies in a lack of sense of responsibility.
Shortcomings are gaps in capability; the "shield" is a malady of thinking. As reform and development tasks are iteratively upgraded, and new business forms, new fields, and new problems continue to emerge, higher demands are placed on cadres' professional competence and ability to perform their duties. Although having shortcomings is an objective reality, facing them squarely and making positive progress is the correct posture. Clinging to one's comfort zone and using "I can't" and "I don't understand" as a pretext for shirking work not only delays one's own growth but also betrays the trust of the organization and the expectations of the masses.
Shortcomings are not frightening; what is frightening is refusing to change or make progress (固步自封, gu bu zi feng - "fix, step, self, seal"). The ability to undertake work and build enterprises has always been forged in taking on hot potatoes and resolving thorny problems. By establishing a mindset of lifelong learning, being good at turning shortcomings into springboards for growth, daring to face difficult problems head-on and proactively taking on tasks, and making up for whatever one lacks and strengthening whatever one is weak in, one can win the satisfaction of the masses with a "full-charge" capability.
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Recently released data show that in the first three quarters of 2026, the gross domestic product of Changsha, Hunan, grew by only 1.6 percent year on year. Online, a view quickly emerged: the internet-famous city Changsha has been tripped up by traffic and attention, and with too much entertainment and culture, its science and innovation have weakened, ultimately dragging down growth.
The speed of a region's economic growth is the result of the combined effect of complex factors, and should be subjected to in-depth investigation and research and objective, rational analysis. Simply attributing it to "an over-heavy entertainment industry" or "being dragged down by traffic and attention" does not hold up to scrutiny.
A city needs both scientific and technological innovation and modern industries to "strengthen its bones and muscles," and it also needs culture, entertainment, and other industries full of the flavor of life to "invigorate its blood and qi." The two are not opposites but complements.
Chengdu, Sichuan, also an internet-famous city, is full of the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and its economic growth rate in the first three quarters outpaced the national average; Changzhou, Jiangsu, has on the one hand deeply cultivated the new-energy industry and on the other hand enlivened the "concert economy," using traffic and attention and vitality to attract the gathering of young talent. These cases remind us that different industrial tracks can form a positive cycle, and are not an either-or choice between two mutually exclusive options (非此即彼, fei ci ji bi - "not, this, is, that") to be weighed against one another.
In diagnosing development, what matters most is seeking truth from facts and precisely identifying the symptoms, and what is most to be avoided is generalizing from biased or incomplete information (以偏概全, yi pian gai quan - "take, partial, generalize, whole") and prescribing the wrong remedy.
What deserves even more vigilance is a binary, either-or way of thinking. From setting "hardcore technology" against "the hustle and bustle of the city," to setting artificial intelligence empowering film and television production against advancing breakthroughs in underlying technologies, to setting the creation of consumption scenarios against investment in scientific research and development... These topic framings ignore a fact: the growth of science and innovation has never been a closed experiment isolated from urban life and detached from consumption scenarios. This neglect is precisely the source of many controversies.
Attaching importance to hardcore scientific and technological innovation is a required question in high-quality development, and on this point there is no controversy. But recognizing the weight of science and innovation does not mean treating the development of culture, entertainment, and other fields as "delaying the real business." The rich scenarios in the cultural, consumption, and people's livelihood fields are both the soil for the landing of technology, the source of demand for innovation and iteration, and the magnetic field that attracts talent.
At the same time, whether for a country or a region, industries such as cultural tourism and cultural entertainment play an irreplaceable role in meeting the people's spiritual needs, easing the pressure of life, absorbing employment, and driving related industries. "Where culture is well developed, the economy also walks at the forefront," which is a profound inspiration that the practice of many regions has given us.
Therefore, for localities, one should not easily deny one's own characteristics, but should clearly recognize one's own advantages and disadvantages, take scientific and technological innovation as a means of empowerment, strengthen strengths, shore up weaknesses, and promote high-quality development in light of local conditions. For example, Changsha should not only accelerate the layout of emerging industries suited to itself, but also promote the advancement of traditional advantageous industries such as construction machinery toward digitalization and intelligence, and, moreover, make full and good use of the advantages of "traffic and attention," turning the city's popularity and cultural appeal into a source of living water for gathering talent and stimulating creativity. The hustle and bustle of a city is also its competitiveness.
In viewing a city, one cannot look only at the rise and fall of growth rates at a single moment; in viewing an industry, one also cannot replace comprehensive analysis with label-based thinking. High-quality development requires overall planning and balanced consideration, requiring both a scientific and innovative ambition facing the future and seeking truth from facts and respecting laws, moving forward step by step in daring to strive and dare to break through, and in sustained, long-term effort.
(Excerpted from the "People's Commentary" WeChat public account)
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The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"), adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, fully implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, emphatically stresses that "strengthening Party consciousness is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party," and makes important arrangements for strengthening the Party consciousness of Communists, fully reflecting our Party's profound grasp of the characteristics and laws of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and seizing the key and crux of governing and managing the Party, rejuvenating and strengthening the Party.
I. Strengthening the Party Consciousness of Communists Bears on the Party's Nature and Purpose, and on the Success or Failure of Its Cause
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that the firm Party consciousness of Chinese Communists is an important guarantee for our Party to maintain its advanced nature and purity and to improve its leadership level and governance capability; he has emphasized that Party consciousness is the cornerstone for Party members and cadres to establish themselves, build their careers, speak and act, and cultivate virtue, and that the most fundamental aspect of stressing politics is to stress Party consciousness. We must fully understand the extreme importance and urgency of strengthening Party consciousness and deeply grasp the theoretical logic, historical logic, and practical logic contained therein.
(1) This is the proper meaning of upholding the essential attributes of a Marxist political party and maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity. Party consciousness is the concentrated embodiment of the essential attributes of a Marxist political party and the fundamental requirement that the Party's nature and purpose place on Party members. Lenin pointed out that strict Party consciousness is one of the conditions for making class struggle a conscious, clear, and principled struggle. Comrade Mao Zedong emphasized that Party consciousness is a common nature, a universal nature, a nature possessed by every person in the entire Party. The advanced nature of the Party must not only be embodied in the Party's theories, lines, principles, and policies, but must also be embodied through the actual actions of Party organizations at all levels and Party members; only when every component of the Party has firm Party consciousness can the overall advanced nature of the Party be guaranteed. At the same time, the advanced nature of the Party is not achieving something once and for all (一劳永逸, yi lao yong yi - "one time, forever"), nor is it immutable, and Party consciousness will not naturally improve with the increase in years of Party membership or the promotion of positions. We must unremittingly strengthen Party consciousness, resolutely fight against all problems that affect the Party's advanced nature and weaken its purity, ensure that Party members are vanguard fighters with communist consciousness, ensure that our Party always remains the vanguard of the times and the backbone of the nation, and never changes its nature, its color, or its flavor.
(2) This is the inherent requirement for consolidating the Party's unity and solidarity and gathering the mighty force to overcome difficulties. For more than 100 years, our Party has always attached great importance to strengthening Party consciousness, effectively ensuring the unity of thought, political solidarity, and unity of action of the entire Party. In 1929, the Gutian Conference established the principles of building the Party ideologically and building the army politically, correcting and eliminating various non-proletarian ideas. In 1941, the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening Party Consciousness" proposed that "the importance of the unity, centralization, and obedience to the leadership of the Central Committee of the entire Party should be more strongly emphasized within the Party," so that "the entire Party can be united like one person." In 1954, the "Resolution on Strengthening the Unity of the Party" emphasized that "the sole center of Party unity is the Party Central Committee" and opposed "any words and actions that hinder the unified leadership of the Central Committee or damage the unity and prestige of the Central Committee." In 1980, the "Several Guidelines on Inner-Party Political Life" pointed out that "factionalism is fundamentally incompatible with proletarian Party consciousness," and that one must "uphold Party consciousness and eradicate factionalism." Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has treated the issue of Party consciousness as the fundamental issue of Party building, prominently strengthened the Party's political construction, successively carried out nine rounds of centralized education within the Party, insisted on grasping Party consciousness, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and led and guaranteed "governance of China" with "governance of the Communist Party of China." On the new journey of the new era, we must regard firmly supporting the Two Establishments (两个确立) and resolutely achieving the Two Upholds (两个维护) as the most important requirement of Party consciousness, unswervingly uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, unite as one to overcome difficulties, resist risks, and meet challenges, and forge ahead courageously toward the grand goal of building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation.
(3) This is the fundamental strategy for effectively solving prominent problems existing within the Party and continuously realizing the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement. In the new era, great achievements have been made in governing and managing the Party, rejuvenating and strengthening the Party, opening up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party. At the same time, we must clearly see that the "four major tests" and "four dangers" facing the Party are long-term, complex, and severe; the problems of impure thought, impure organization, and impure conduct have not yet been fundamentally solved; a small number of Party members and cadres, including senior cadres, have weak Party consciousness, wavering or even missing ideals and convictions, indifferent feelings toward the masses, deviations in their view of political achievements, serious formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, insufficient fighting spirit, failure to take responsibility or act, failure to observe discipline and rules, and even abuse of power for personal gain and corruption and degeneration. The various problems that arise among Party members and cadres, including problems of work style, problems of the view of political achievements, and problems of corruption, are in the final analysis all problems of Party consciousness. This requires us to start from and be strict with this root of Party consciousness, correct deviations and rectify disorder, eliminate evil and promote good, consolidate the foundation and cultivate the source, and continuously build the Party into a stronger and more powerful force.
(4) This is the practical need to adapt to the structural changes in the Party's ranks and consolidate the Party's long-term governing position. Now, the proportion of Party members and cadres born after the reform and opening up is increasing. As of the end of 2025, among more than 100 million Party members, those aged 45 and below account for 43.8%, and those with a college degree or above account for 59%; among the cadre ranks, those born in the 1960s are retiring one after another, those born in the 1970s and 1980s have become the main body, and those born in the 1990s are gradually growing up. Young comrades generally have received higher education, are active in thinking, broad in vision, and full of energy, but they are relatively lacking in strict training in inner-party political life and tests of great storms and waves, and the issue of Party consciousness is becoming increasingly prominent. Coupled with the accelerated evolution of changes unseen in a century in the world, the rapid development of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, the interweaving and collision of various ideas and values, and the acute and complex struggle in the ideological field, if we do not attach importance to strengthening Party consciousness, there will be a danger of internal strife or trouble arising from within (祸起萧墙, huo qi xiao qiang - "disaster, rise, inner, wall") and the fortress being breached from within. It is necessary to target the conditions and characteristics of the Party's ranks and act with a clear purpose or specific target (有的放矢, you de fang shi - "have, target, shoot, arrow") in strengthening Party consciousness tempering, guiding Party members and cadres to inherit the red gene and bravely shoulder the heavy responsibilities of the times, and always not being distracted by superficialities or minor issues (不畏浮云遮望眼, bu wei fu yun zhe wang yan - "not fear, floating, clouds, cover, looking, eye") and riding the wind and waves without losing their course.
II. Deeply Understand and Grasp the Basic Connotation and Practical Requirements of Strengthening Party Consciousness
The Decision proposes that it is necessary to promote all Party members and cadres to strengthen their Party awareness, Party member awareness, and vanguard awareness, and to make efforts in firming up ideals and convictions, forging loyalty to the Party, cultivating deep feelings for the people, adhering to seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining integrity and honesty. This concisely summarizes the requirements of Party consciousness for Communists and is an important focus that must be grasped in strengthening Party consciousness cultivation.
(1) Firm up ideals and convictions. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that revolutionary ideals are higher than heaven, and ideals and convictions are the spiritual pillar and political soul of Chinese Communists. Only with firm ideals and convictions can one adhere to the correct political direction and withstand various tests; without ideals and convictions, or with wavering ideals and convictions, one will become a vulgar utilitarian and a refined egoist, and may even lead to political deterioration, economic greed, moral degeneration, and decadent life. To firm up ideals and convictions, one must bear in mind the fundamental question of what the Communist Party of China is and what it wants to do, replenish the calcium of the spirit, firm up faith in Marxism, conviction in communism, and confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and achieve devoutness and persistence, and deep and profound belief.
(2) Forge loyalty to the Party. Loyalty to the Party is the primary political quality of Communists; without loyalty to the Party, there is not the slightest bit of Party consciousness. The Party Constitution stipulates that Party members must "be loyal and honest to the Party, and match words with deeds," and the oath of joining the Party contains the requirements of "loyalty to the Party" and "never betraying the Party." Loyalty to the Party cannot remain at the level of general requirements; it must be absolute, that is, unique, thorough, unconditional, without any impurities, and without any water. Some Party members and cadres perform acceptably when things are going smoothly, but once they encounter bumps and obstacles, they harbor distracting thoughts and calculate their own interests, which cannot be called absolute loyalty. To forge loyalty to the Party, one must always place the Party at the center of one's heart, be loyal to the Party's faith, loyal to the Party's organization, and loyal to the Party's cause, follow the Party with an iron heart and never regret it even unto death, and under no circumstances or at any time change one's heart, shift one's will, or alter one's integrity.
(3) Cultivate deep feelings for the people. Party consciousness and people's nature have always been consistent and unified. Our Party is rooted in the people, its blood flows from the people, and its strength comes from the people; it always represents the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, has no special interests of its own, and never represents the interests of any interest group, power bloc, or privileged stratum. Taking the people's heart as one's own heart, breathing with the people, sharing the same destiny, and being heart-to-heart with the people is the Party's original aspiration and also its enduring commitment. To cultivate deep feelings for the people, one must bear in mind that the country is the people and the people are the country, figure out "who I am, for whom I act, and on whom I rely," establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, follow the Party's mass line well in the new era, solve the people's urgent, difficult, anxious, and expectant problems with heart and feeling, and continuously realize the people's aspirations for a better life.
(4) Adhere to seeking truth from facts. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that Communists are materialists, and being pragmatic is an essential character and also the key to accomplishing things; speaking the truth and doing practical work best tests and tempers Party consciousness. Some Party members and cadres have various problems, many because their stance has deviated or their motives are impure, and some have good subjective wishes but wrong methods, so that good intentions lead to bad results. Only by proceeding from reality in everything, acting according to objective laws, and revering history, culture, and ecology can one create real achievements that stand up to the test of practice, the people, and history. To adhere to seeking truth from facts, one must combine the enthusiasm for work with the scientific spirit, ascertain the real situation, take practical measures, and seek practical results, resolutely guard against formalism and bureaucratism, and continuously open up new horizons for the development of the cause through earnest and solid work.
(5) Purify moral character. Throughout our Party's journey, countless advanced models have emerged. From Zhang Side, Lei Feng, and Jiao Yulu, to Gu Wenchang, Yang Shanzhou, and Kong Fansen, and then to the winners of the "July 1 Medal" in recent years, they have vividly demonstrated the brilliance of Communist Party consciousness through their being completely selfless and impartial (大公无私, da gong wu si - "great, public, none, private") and hard-working and dedicated practical actions. Only when Communists possess the power of personality can they establish an image and win the hearts of the people; if they are not strict in self-cultivation and lose virtue and standards, they are unworthy of the glorious title of Communist Party member. To purify moral character, one must rectify the mind and understand the Way, cherish virtue and respect oneself, cultivate political virtue, professional ethics, social morality, and family virtues, and strive to be a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who has departed from low tastes, and a person beneficial to the people.
(6) Maintain integrity and honesty. Impartiality gives rise to clarity, and integrity gives rise to authority. When Party members and cadres lead by example and are honest and self-disciplined, the masses will praise you, support you, and follow you; conversely, they will hate you, oppose you, and alienate you. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has rectified conduct, enforced discipline, and fought corruption with the force of thunder, unswervingly implemented the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and unwaveringly "cracked down on tigers," "swatted flies," and "hunted foxes," bringing about a completely new look in Party conduct, government conduct, and social conduct, and highly uniting the hearts of the Party, the military, and the people. Purity gives rise to an abundance of righteous energy, and integrity makes one immune to all poisons. To maintain integrity and honesty, one must frequently brush away the "dust of thought," often reflect on the "harm of greed," constantly break the "thief in the heart," be an upright person, do clean work, and perform duties according to rules, forever maintaining the political nature of Communists.
III. Implement the Requirements of Strengthening Party Consciousness in All Aspects and the Entire Process of Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party
Strengthening Party consciousness is an eternal subject of Party building and also a lifelong subject for Party members and cadres. It is necessary to follow the deployment of the Decision, solidly promote the implementation and landing of the tasks and measures for strengthening Party consciousness, and guide Party members and cadres to strengthen Party consciousness cultivation and enhance their realm and awareness through constant cultivation and refinement.
(1) Adhere to placing loyalty to the Party in a prominent position in Party consciousness cultivation, and promote the entire Party to firmly support the Two Establishments and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds. Strengthening Party consciousness is, in the final analysis, about solving the problem of stance well, achieving absolute political reliability and absolute loyalty to the Party. It is necessary to strengthen education on loyalty to the Party, educate and guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, enhance the Four Consciousnesses, firm up the Four Confidences, and achieve the Two Upholds, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action. It is necessary to strengthen organizational concepts and the awareness of purpose, educate and guide Party members and cadres to love the Party while in the Party, speak for the Party while in the Party, worry about the Party while in the Party, and work for the Party while in the Party, trust the organization, rely on the organization, and obey the organization, adhere to putting the people first and the cause first, and actively work for the Party and the people. It is necessary to strengthen political training, educate and guide Party members and cadres to improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, and implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee without any discount. It is necessary to strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, never allow the "seven have-its," resolutely oppose liberalism in thought, opportunism in politics, factionalism in organization, departmentalism in work, and the doctrine of good-fellowship in performing duties, accurately identify and resolutely eliminate double-faced people, and continuously purify the inner-party political ecology.
(2) Always regard learning, comprehending, and applying the Party's innovative theories as the fundamental path to strengthening Party consciousness cultivation, and adhere to using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite hearts and forge souls. Political maturity and firm Party consciousness stem from theoretical clarity. It is necessary to strengthen the building of a Marxist learning-oriented political party, enrich the methods of theoretical learning and education, highlight the main course status of the Party's innovative theories in education and training, guide Party members and cadres to read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the principles, build a solid foundation of ideals, temper political character, and solve the master switch problem of worldview, outlook on life, and values. It is necessary to promote the Marxist style of study, promote Party members and cadres to use the Party's innovative theories to analyze and solve practical problems, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and achieve the integration of learning, thinking, and application and the unity of knowledge, faith, and action. It is necessary to adhere to and improve the "first agenda item" system, improve the quality of theoretical learning center group learning of Party committees (Party groups) and theoretical learning of grassroots Party organizations, deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theories, and better promote the entire Party to unify thought, unify will, and unify action.
(3) Use the Party's fine traditions and the excellent traditional Chinese culture to nourish Party consciousness and continue the spiritual bloodline of Communists. The Party's fine traditions and the excellent traditional Chinese culture are a rich spiritual mine for strengthening Party consciousness cultivation. It is necessary to deepen education on the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, and promote the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists with the great founding spirit of the Party as its source. It is necessary to excavate and make good use of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, deepen political virtue education, guide Party members and cadres to understand great virtue, uphold public virtue, and be strict in private virtue, cultivate feelings for the family and the country, and nourish awe-inspiring righteousness. It is necessary to strengthen and improve ideological and political work under the new situation, give play to the important role of Party schools (schools of administration) and cadre colleges in Party consciousness education, and enhance pertinence and effectiveness.
(4) Pay attention to the test of actual struggle and the tempering of inner-party political life, and temper Party consciousness in practice. Strengthening Party consciousness is concrete and practical, and requires solid cultivation and training. It is necessary to promote Party members and cadres to temper Party consciousness in implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, completing urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, and responding to tests of major storms and waves, and to hone Party consciousness in handling the relationships between right and wrong, public and private, and gain and loss. It is necessary to implement the guidelines for inner-party political life, make good use of the weapon of criticism and self-criticism, strengthen Party consciousness analysis, and enhance the political nature, contemporaneity, principled nature, and combativeness of inner-party political life. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of centralized education and regular education, give play to the exemplary role of advanced models, and guide Party members and cadres to strive to emulate the virtuous and worthy (见贤思齐, jian xian si qi - "see, worthy, think, emulate") and strive for excellence.
(5) Strengthen the identification of Party consciousness and establish a clear orientation of stressing Party consciousness, valuing Party consciousness, and strengthening Party consciousness. Party consciousness is not abstract or empty, but measurable and testable. It is necessary to regard Party consciousness as an important content of cadre assessment and democratic evaluation of Party members, with emphasis on understanding and evaluating the realm and pattern, and the degree of loyalty and integrity. It is necessary to improve the communication mechanism between organization departments and discipline inspection and supervision organs and inspection, audit, and petition departments, and conduct comprehensive analysis and research on the Party consciousness of members of leading bodies, cadres to be promoted, and young cadres. It is necessary to identify Party consciousness from the performance in responding to challenges, resisting risks, overcoming difficulties, and resolving contradictions, judge Party consciousness from daily work, personal words and deeds, social interactions, and family education and family conduct, and understand Party consciousness by listening to the evaluations of superiors, mutual evaluations of peers, reflections of subordinates, and the reputation among the masses. It is necessary to make good use of the results of Party consciousness identification, so that those with firm Party consciousness are commended and given important positions, those with weak Party consciousness are alerted and punished, and stressing Party consciousness, valuing Party consciousness, and strengthening Party consciousness become a common practice throughout the entire Party.
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Evolving from "being good at chatting" to "being able to work and deliver," office intelligent agents have truly become "good assistants"; controllable by eye and voice, smart glasses have become "good helpers" for high-voltage line inspection workers; learning and mastering professional massage techniques and force, robots have taken up posts as "physiotherapists." In early November, at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit held in Wuzhen, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, a batch of new artificial intelligence technologies and products made a stunning debut.
Since the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit was held, Wuzhen has gradually developed into a culturally smart town, with digital economy enterprises growing from 12 to more than 1,200. Through the window of Wuzhen, one can see the surging vitality and solid pace of innovation in Zhejiang. In recent years, Zhejiang has continuously consolidated the foundation of the digital economy, advancing artificial intelligence technological innovation, application empowerment, and industrial development as an integrated whole, accelerating the building of a highland for artificial intelligence innovation and development, and constructing a virtuous cycle system of "data—models—scenario applications."
Open source and openness, fostering a vibrant innovation ecosystem
"Only when researchers lift their heads from heavy computation can they devote more energy to the unknown." said Zhang Shuhan, a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering of Nanjing University. In the past, an ordinary desktop computer would need more than 10 years to calculate the evolutionary sequences of 10,000 fossil species; today, the stratigraphic artificial intelligence large model developed by Zhang Shuhan and his team in cooperation with the Zhejiang Lab can process data on 100,000 species in just a few days.
From "computing faster" to "using better," open source and openness are continuously lowering the threshold for innovation.
At the open source themed ecological experience hall in Wuzhen, the booth of "ModelScope Community" saw people coming and going in large numbers (人来人往, ren lai ren wang - "people, come, people, go"). At present, the ModelScope Community has attracted 33 million users from more than 200 countries and regions around the world, aggregated more than 280,000 open source models, and provides services such as model download, fine-tuning, and training.
Online, resources are aggregated; offline, ideas collide. At the offline developer center of the ModelScope Community in Xihu District, Hangzhou, long tables are arranged and code is running. OPC (one-person company) entrepreneurs, from getting one model working to launching a product, find that realizing their ideas is within easy reach.
Looking through the "window" of Wuzhen, innovation momentum surges in Zhejiang—
In Tongxiang, seven artificial intelligence enterprises are distributed along the 28-kilometer Wuzhen Avenue, covering segments such as computing power, data, and applications. Looking across Zhejiang, the Qwen and DeepSeek large models continue to iterate, with comprehensive performance firmly in the first tier of global open source models.
Continuously consolidating the foundation, Zhejiang's innovation ecosystem is improving—
The national supercomputing center "Light of Wuzhen" can complete 1.8 quintillion floating-point operations per second, and has deployed more than a thousand supercomputing applications and over a hundred mainstream large models. As of the end of September this year, Zhejiang's total computing power scale ranks among the forefront nationally, with 54 enterprises (institutions) receiving support from national computing power vouchers, with a total support scale of 408 million yuan.
The "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Zhejiang Province's Open Source System" issued this year makes clear that by 2027, Zhejiang will build 1 to 2 open source communities with global influence, form more than 50 high-quality open source projects, and cultivate more than 150 open source innovation enterprises.
Technology empowerment is both a technical means and a driving force for industrial transformation
Driving more than 20 kilometers from the Wuzhen conference venue brings one to Puyuan Town, Tongxiang. As a distribution center for woolen sweaters, Puyuan Town's woolen sweater industry transaction volume reached 139.3 billion yuan in 2025.
In the past, quality inspection of woolen sweaters long relied on manual light-table inspection, where holes and loose threads in complex textures were easy to miss. The fabric defect recognition system developed by the Tongxiang Research Institute of Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, trained on tens of thousands of woolen sweater defect cases, can identify various defects such as holes, loose threads, and weaving flaws.
Changes are occurring not only on the production line but also extending to the front end of the market.
At the Puyuan Fashion Center, in front of an artificial intelligence fitting mirror connected to goods on sale from nearly 200 merchants, buyers formed a continuous stream of people or things (络绎不绝, luo yi bu jue - "continuous, not, cease"). A light swipe across the mirror allows one to select styles, colors, and knitted panels, preview a 360-degree virtual try-on effect in real time, and even independently design styles and patterns, sending customization requests directly to partner factories. "Buyers don't have to try on each piece one by one, which reduces our risk of inventory backlog," said business operator Jiang Lei.
The tentacles of artificial intelligence continue to extend to the front line of production. Entering the Digital Intelligence Operations Center of Tongkun Group in Zhouquan Town, Tongxiang, information such as equipment operation and production progress jumps in real time on the large screen. The "Tongkun Brain" connects 28,000 pieces of equipment, embedding artificial intelligence into segments such as quality inspection and logistics scheduling.
Relying on the resource aggregation effect of the Wuzhen Summit, the total number of national high-tech enterprises and provincial-level technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in Tongxiang has grown by 10 times and 8 times respectively compared with 2014. In the first eight months of this year, Tongxiang's core artificial intelligence industry achieved revenue of nearly 10 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.7 percent.
Advancing 17 provincial-level pilot projects in accordance with the "one county, one industry, one plan" approach, Zhejiang is promoting artificial intelligence empowerment and transformation in industries such as chemical fiber in Xiaoshan and electrical appliances in Yueqing in light of local conditions, and has already created 137 specialized models and characteristic intelligent agents and 127 high-quality industry datasets. Zhejiang has cumulatively created 210 "artificial intelligence +" typical application scenarios, promoting the deep penetration of artificial intelligence from single-point breakthroughs to all industries and all scenarios.
People-oriented, technology with warmth better benefits the masses
At noon, in the corridors of the Wuzhen Smart Elderly Care Center, a meal delivery robot glides steadily along, delivering hot meals to the door of 85-year-old Grandma Ni's room.
On streets and in alleys, new colleagues are also taking up their posts. At an intersection in Puyuan Town, a robot traffic police officer directs the flow of vehicles; in front of the Wuzhen bus station, autonomous shuttle buses are ferrying tourists, with information such as traffic light signal status at intersections synchronized in real time to the autonomous shuttle buses.
The innovative development of artificial intelligence requires not only the height of technological breakthroughs and the speed of industrial upgrading, but also the warmth of inclusive sharing of innovation achievements—
In Hangzhou, tourists wearing augmented reality glasses can "look and ask" at the Liangzhu Museum; in Jinhua, drones through routine aerial surveying can generate a farmland growth "physical examination report" in half an hour; across Zhejiang Province, the medical artificial intelligence agent "Anzhen'er" has been connected to more than 2,000 medical and health institutions, providing more than 40 services including pre-consultation guidance, medical accompaniment, and report interpretation.
At present, multiple platforms including the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Medical) and the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Culture and Tourism) have been established in Zhejiang. According to the "Zhejiang Province 15th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy and Digital Infrastructure," by 2030, the province's digital economy value added as a proportion of regional GDP will reach 60 percent, and revenue from core artificial intelligence industries above designated size will reach 1.2 trillion yuan.
The main responsible comrade of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee stated that Zhejiang is striving to accelerate the empowerment of artificial intelligence across a thousand industries and ten thousand businesses, making every effort to create a first-class innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and injecting strong momentum into promoting high-quality development of cyberspace.
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In the early morning, in Yueyaxia Village, Guide Town, Zizhong County, Sichuan, Zhang Hua, a villager in his 60s, shouldered his basket early and prepared to go to the village's small square to collect express deliveries.
"Earlier, staff at the town's JD Logistics station called to say that several parcels for our village would arrive today," Zhang Hua said. He handles the village's express delivery collection work himself.
Zhang Hua does not need to find a courier or go to town to collect his parcels — there is a new way.
The village's small square has a wide, open concrete surface. As soon as he arrived, Zhang Hua set down his basket and chatted warmly with fellow villagers. As they spoke, a drone flew in from afar, hovered above the small square, and then began descending at a leisurely pace (徐徐降落, xu xu jiang luo - "slowly, descend").
Zhang Hua picked up his basket, walked up to the drone, opened the storage compartment on the fuselage, took out several express parcels, placed them in the basket, and turned to head home. "When we buy things online, the parcels all 'fly' over!" Zhang Hua said.
Zizhong County is located in the central part of the Sichuan Basin, with 85 percent of its land consisting of low mountains and hills. Previously, riding a motorcycle from Yueyaxia Village to Guide Town took more than an hour round trip. "The roads are hard to travel, and I'm getting older. Every time I go to town, I worry a bit about safety on the road," Zhang Hua said. Now, after parcels arrive in the village, villagers receive a notification and then come to Zhang Hua's home to pick them up.
The change began this June. With the coordination and support of the Zizhong County Development and Reform Bureau, JD Logistics applied to open drone delivery routes in Zizhong County. "We purchased more than 10 drones, successively established drone delivery stations in 6 townships, and opened 131 routes covering 131 administrative villages," said Li Xin, head of JD Logistics' drone delivery operations in Zizhong County. Drone delivery adopts a "county-level business outlet + township-level delivery station + village-level pickup point" model. At the village level, JD hires farmers to participate in express collection, and Zhang Hua is one of them.
Drone delivery has improved delivery efficiency. Many villages in Zizhong County are tucked away in mountain hollows, and delivery vehicles often have to take detours or traverse narrow village roads over the mountains. "Some villages fall outside the regular delivery range, so couriers can only deliver once every few days; some villages have no service stations, so after parcels reach the township, villagers have to pick them up themselves," Li Xin said. Drone delivery can reach a village in as little as 7 minutes, reducing the pressure and cost on villagers collecting parcels and couriers making deliveries.
For drones to deliver parcels into villages, the village-level endpoint is the key. Zizhong County has pushed each township to coordinate collective village land or villagers' own open spaces as village-level pickup points, and JD provides service subsidies to villagers who participate in express collection. "It's a few hundred yuan a month," Zhang Hua said. Being able to pick up parcels in the village also brings an extra income — "very comfortable."
In Zizhong, the drone express delivery network is expanding to the whole county. "As of now, the cumulative number of parcels delivered into villages by drone across the county has exceeded 4,000," said a relevant official from the Zizhong County Development and Reform Bureau. Sichuan Province has issued relevant policies and measures, and provincial-level fiscal subsidies and other support are accelerating the implementation of new scenarios such as drone delivery of express parcels into villages.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王若凡
Not long ago, on the banks of the Grand Canal Forest Park in Tongzhou, Beijing, reeds swayed in the wind as large flocks of migratory birds skimmed across the water, beginning their journey southward.
British ornithologist Paul Holt was holding up audio recording equipment, capturing the chorus of birdsong from the flying birds.
"The weather is turning cold, and many birds are starting to fly south — it's wonderful!" Paul's gaze followed closely the little buntings darting out from the reeds, the sound of their wings beating clearly audible through the misty rain.
In the first three quarters of 2026, China's inbound tourism market continued to recover, with the number of visitors to China achieving steady growth. From January to August 2026, national border inspection authorities processed a cumulative total of 499 million entry-exit personnel, up 8.7 percent year on year, of whom 61.287 million were foreigners, up 19.5 percent year on year.
The travel preferences of foreign tourists are also changing. Checking in at traditional landmarks is no longer the only choice; more and more overseas visitors are pursuing immersive nature experiences, and "eco-tourism" has become a buzzword in the new cultural tourism of cities.
New forms of tourism such as birdwatching and wetland study tours are on the rise, and urban parks and suburban rivers and lakes have become new windows through which overseas visitors can perceive China's biodiversity.
"China has more than twice as many bird species as Britain," Paul noted. The light-vented bulbul, which was hardly seen or difficult to find (难觅踪影, nan mi zong ying - "hard, seek, trace, shadow") in Beijing 30 years ago, is now very common. The changes in bird numbers are the most vivid proof of the improvement in the urban ecology.
Beijing, a megacity, boasts a large number of parks and wetlands, including the Olympic Forest Park, the Grand Canal Forest Park, and Yeyahu Lake, forming an urban birdwatching network. Paul's wife, Wang Qingyu, is a seasoned birdwatching guide in China. "More and more foreigners are eager to come to China for birdwatching, and our country's visa-free policies are also very convenient now," Wang Qingyu said. China has more than 1,500 bird species and is one of the countries with the largest number of bird species in the world. China's rare cranes and pheasants hold strong appeal for birdwatching enthusiasts around the globe.
The continued warming of inbound tourism has also brought about a two-way convergence in eco-cultural tourism. Entry facilitation policies have been continuously upgraded. On August 20, the National Immigration Administration issued a notice expanding the number of countries eligible for the 240-hour visa-free transit policy to 57.
"Migratory birds are true cross-border travelers," Paul remarked. Wetland restoration and the construction of urban ecological spaces continue to be implemented on the ground, steadily consolidating the ecological foundation. On one hand, overseas visitors harbor an eager longing for nature-observation experiences; on the other, the urban ecology continues to improve. What was once a relatively niche activity, birdwatching, is gradually growing into a distinctive eco-cultural tourism product that attracts overseas visitors.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 倪 弋
On the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released a batch of typical cases of protecting citizens' personal information in accordance with the law, focusing on the new characteristics and new trends of crimes infringing on citizens' personal information, revealing criminal methods and harmful consequences, and issuing warnings and reminders.
Beware of the criminal chain of "finding buyers domestically—obtaining data overseas—reselling at a markup domestically"
In June 2024, Wang and Xu Ling discovered that they could purchase Chinese citizens' personal information in bulk from overseas "social engineering databases" on the internet, so they rented premises, recruited salespeople, and set up a "studio." Wang liaised with upstream sellers, Xu Ling was responsible for fund settlement, and the salespeople used telephone and the internet to find downstream buyers, forming a criminal chain of "finding buyers domestically—obtaining data overseas—reselling at a markup domestically," reselling information such as household registration, property status, and whereabouts trajectories, involving 1.98 million yuan. To evade investigation and punishment, the gang uniformly equipped itself with work phones and social media accounts, collected payments through online payment platforms, and then paid overseas upstream suppliers in virtual currency.
The People's Procuratorate of Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, conducted substantive review of electronic data, investigating the source of information, circulation paths, and fund settlement link by link, and determined the criminal facts and amounts in accordance with the law; it guided investigation, supervised case filing, and captured both upstream material suppliers and downstream secondary resellers, achieving punishment across the entire chain.
Crimes infringing on citizens' personal information are increasingly showing characteristics of organization, chain-based operation, and cross-border activity, and similar criminal chains are also hidden in the secondary processing of "public information." Liu specifically established a real estate agency company, recruited personnel to scrape rental and sale listings published by "first-hand female landlords" from various platforms, then screened out women with a certain level of economic strength, packaged and organized property information, contact details, and other data, and sold them to overseas personnel, illegally obtaining and selling more than 24,000 pieces of information and profiting more than 190,000 yuan.
The People's Procuratorate of Binhu District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, held upon review that published information is not a "public resource" that can be freely resold—Liu, without the consent of the rights holders, unilaterally changed the purpose and use of the information disclosure, processed it in a targeted manner, and provided it across borders, clearly exceeding the limits of reasonable use. The procuratorial organ initiated public prosecution on the grounds of "especially serious circumstances," issued procuratorial recommendations to the competent industry authorities for risk warnings, and promoted source governance of listing information release review and the intermediary industry.
Criminal methods are shifting from manual theft to technical theft, with strong concealment and great harm
Starting in 2020, Chen Cheng, Lu Peng, and Ma Li, in order to gain online influence, used script code to intrude into a provincial affairs platform system, illegally obtaining more than 16 million pieces of information such as citizens' identity numbers and telephone numbers; they also wrote programs to steal more than 1 billion pieces of user account information from multiple online forums and cloud storage spaces. Relying on precisely stolen personal information, the criminals carried out "doxxing," cyberbullying, and offline harassment against 47 netizens, causing 5 victims to seek medical treatment for depression and many minors and college students to develop aversion to study.
During the review and prosecution stage, the procuratorial organ organized network information experts to assess the case: Lu Peng's intrusion into the national affairs computer information system and provision of technical support constituted the crime of illegally intruding into computer information systems and the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, with combined punishment for multiple crimes; Chen Cheng and Ma Li intruded into the system to obtain information, were convicted of the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information, and additionally constituted the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble for cyberbullying acts, with combined punishment for multiple crimes.
In crimes infringing on citizens' personal information, criminal methods are increasingly shifting from traditional "manual theft" to "technical theft."
From April 2022 to February 2024, Wang and Lin used "crawler" programs on the internet to illegally intrude into the servers of a tertiary A-level oncology hospital, stealing a total of more than 3.85 million pieces of information including patients' personal information, outpatient medical order data, and inpatient medical order data, migrating them to overseas servers for storage for as long as six months, and selling part of the medical data for profit. In handling the case, the People's Procuratorate of Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, resolved the difficulty of determining the "identifiability" and "relevance" of medical and health information, confirming that prescription data can be precisely traced back to specific patients and constitutes medical and health-related sensitive personal information explicitly protected by law. After the criminal judgment took effect, the procuratorial organ separately filed a civil public interest lawsuit: although the verifiable profit was only 10,800 yuan, the data was highly sensitive, widely affected, costly to remediate, and its overseas storage impacted public health security, and on this basis discretionary public interest damages of 1.5 million yuan were determined.
Customized schemes are precisely targeted at specific groups such as the elderly and celebrities
In one typical case, Pan and Fan discovered that many rural elderly people had a real need to activate medical insurance electronic vouchers, but were unfamiliar with mobile phone operations and lacked awareness of prevention. The two formed a "village promotion" gang, and under the guise of "helping handle business," they went visiting every household one by one (挨家挨户, ai jia ai hu - "each house, each door") in more than 500 villages across 6 provinces including Henan to provide "services," defrauding more than 20,000 elderly people of their names, identity numbers, and facial information, batch real-name authenticating Alipay accounts and then reselling them, illegally profiting more than 1.8 million yuan.
The People's Procuratorate of Mengzhou City, Henan Province, conducted meticulous review of electronic data, accurately determined the amount of information, and imposed severe punishment on the organizers and commanders; to address the problem of elderly people not knowing how to dispose of risky accounts, it jointly conducted door-to-door investigations with public security and grassroots organizations, helped cancel locally involved accounts, and simultaneously carried out legal publicity.
Criminals tailor schemes to specific groups and carry out precise targeted hunting.
Shu Ping, an outsourced customer service employee of an airline who was keen on celebrity chasing, used system permissions to query celebrities' upcoming flight information, and information on more than 100 flights leaked through online group chats, triggering following and photographing, accompanying flights, and "brushing through security checks," which not only infringed on personal privacy but also disrupted airport order and planted hidden public safety hazards. The People's Procuratorate of Chaoyang District, Beijing, determined that upcoming flights can pinpoint the location of a specific natural person at a future time and constitute whereabouts trajectory information. The procuratorial organ initiated public prosecution for the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information and simultaneously filed a criminal incidental civil public interest lawsuit.
The procuratorial organ reminds: no organization or individual may illegally collect, use, process, or transmit others' personal information, nor illegally buy, sell, provide, or disclose others' information; the general public should enhance their awareness of prevention, ask about the purpose before authorizing facial recognition, not purchase "location query" or "background investigation" services of unknown origin, and promptly report to the police when they discover their information has been leaked.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 施 钰
At Fuyao's production base in Fuqing, Fujian, production lines run 24 hours a day, with curved electric dimming glass panels coming off the line one after another. In September of this year, the 270-degree rear-cabin electric dimming glass developed by Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fuyao Group") in coordination with automakers' needs was launched on the market, achieving light transmittance adjustment between 10% and 12% in the bright state and a minimum of 0.25% in the dark state, with a dimming ratio of more than 40 times.
"To ensure the stability and safety of the product, the company has built a dedicated production line for dimming glass, independently developed special curved-surface processing technology, and customized vehicle-grade extreme testing systems including high temperature, high humidity, thermal shock, and xenon lamp aging, completing the full-chain mass production from materials, diaphragms, and glass to the complete vehicle," said the relevant person in charge of Fuyao Group's production department. In core technology areas such as automotive glass, key forming processes, and equipment, Fuyao Group has achieved independent research and development with 100 percent self-control, resolving 14 "bottleneck" technical challenges in the industry.
With the large-scale mass production of innovative products, the share of Fuyao Group's high-value-added products has continued to rise. In 2025, Fuyao Group achieved revenue of 45.787 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.65 percent, and net profit attributable to the parent company of 9.312 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.2 percent, with high-value-added products accounting for 54.20 percent.
One out of every three automotive glass panels in the world comes from Fuyao in China. Over 50 years, Cao Dewang, lifelong honorary chairman of Fuyao Group, has led the company from a small township factory to grow into a large multinational industrial group focused on automotive glass production, with a market share of 35 percent, ranking first globally.
"The most correct thing I chose to do was to make a piece of automotive glass of our own for the Chinese people." Looking back at the starting point, Cao Dewang recalled that in the early days of reform and opening up, almost all automotive glass in China was imported from abroad, constraining the development of the automobile industry. In 1987, Cao Dewang co-founded an enterprise with partners to produce safety glass for automobiles, and has continued to develop ever since. "Our strategic positioning has never changed, and we have never thought of doing anything else — we are simply committed to making automotive glass."
Expanding opening up to the outside world, following automakers in going global to lay out manufacturing bases, and establishing production, sales, and R&D bases in 13 countries around the world, with overseas revenue accounting for 46.25 percent of main business income in 2025; strengthening independent innovation capabilities, with cumulative R&D investment exceeding 10 billion yuan from 2016 to 2025, leading and participating in the formulation of 66 international and national standards, and driving automotive glass toward a safer, smarter, more environmentally friendly, and more integrated direction; promoting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing, building green smart factories, incorporating carbon reduction into corporate planning, and bringing artificial intelligence into workshop production... Cao Dewang said: "Since we are the leader, we have the responsibility and the obligation to continuously innovate and bring forth new things (推陈出新, tui chen chu xin - "push, old, out, new"), to accelerate the iteration of new automotive glass products and make our products more competitive."
"Entrepreneurs should have ambition and pursuit; the purpose of development is to serve society," Cao Dewang believes. In 2010, Cao Dewang donated 300 million shares of Fuyao Glass stock he personally held to initiate the Heren Charitable Foundation. In 2021, the Heren Charitable Foundation planned to invest 10 billion yuan to prepare for the establishment of Fuyao University of Science and Technology. In September 2025, Fuyao University of Science and Technology welcomed its first cohort of 50 undergraduate students, and this year welcomed a second cohort of 100 undergraduate students. Cao Dewang said: "Only when students are cultivated into high-quality, high-caliber talent can we call it success."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 9) (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on November 9: The Ministry of Public Security has continued to deepen reforms in traffic management administrative services, launching five new measures to benefit the people and facilitate enterprises, implementing the "one-stop service" for new vehicle registration of imported passenger cars, the "no submission required" for enterprise paper business licenses, facilitating online services for enterprises, facilitating online application for temporary license plates for test vehicles, and piloting the "ask while handling" service of the traffic management assistant "Jiaoguan Xiao'an." These five new measures precisely cover multiple scenarios including new vehicle registration, enterprise procedures, industrial services, and intelligent consultation, and will be officially implemented nationwide starting December 1.
On the basis of achieving the "one-stop service" for new vehicle registration of domestically produced passenger cars, this reform further breaks down data barriers between departments, with traffic management departments sharing pre-inspection information for imported passenger cars with relevant departments. After purchasing an imported passenger car, the public can use the "Jiaoguan 12123" APP to complete all license plate selection and registration procedures online in one stop, without needing to go to service windows to handle procedures, achieving completing tasks without leaving one's home (足不出户, zu bu chu hu - "foot, not, go, out") for registration and license plate issuance.
In response to problems such as cumbersome daily traffic management procedures and complex materials for enterprises, the new measures fully implement the "no submission required" service for enterprise paper business licenses. They connect with and apply the electronic business license data of market supervision departments, supporting enterprises in presenting and using them when handling traffic management procedures. At the same time, to facilitate routine business management for enterprises, for enterprises that have already applied for electronic business licenses, an online registration service for enterprise users on the "Jiaoguan 12123" APP is launched, facilitating inquiries about the status of motor vehicles under the enterprise and its branches, violation accidents, business reminder notifications, and other information.
This reform pilots the launch of the intelligent customer service "Jiaoguan Xiao'an" on the "Jiaoguan 12123" APP in municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capital cities, capitals of autonomous regions, and cities with independent planning status, introducing a new "ask while handling" model for traffic management procedures to enhance the public's experience in handling procedures. The number of users of the "Jiaoguan 12123" APP has exceeded 610 million.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Taiyuan, November 9) (Reporter Zheng Yangyang) On the afternoon of November 9, the People's Government of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, held a press conference on the fire accident at the Howard International Apartment building in Yingze District, Taiyuan, to brief the public on the relevant situation.
At 16:59 on November 8, a fire broke out at the Howard International Apartment building. After receiving the alarm, fire rescue forces arrived at the scene at 17:04, the open flames at the scene were extinguished at 19:00, and the search and rescue operation concluded at 20:30, with 60 trapped residents organized, evacuated, and rescued. As of now, the fire has caused 14 deaths, and 25 people are receiving treatment in hospitals, of whom 9 are in critical condition, 4 are seriously injured, and 12 have minor injuries. At present, control measures have been taken against the management personnel of the property-owning unit and the persons in charge of the property management company. The cause of the accident is under investigation, and the findings will be released to the public in accordance with laws and regulations.
Return to TopIn May 2011, the State Council approved the abolition of Chenggong County in Yunnan Province and agreed to establish Chenggong District of Kunming City; in November of the same year, the conference on Chenggong's county-to-district transition was held. Over the past 15 years, this former "land of flowers, vegetables, and fruits" on the eastern shore of Dianchi Lake has transformed and soared toward its goal of being a "Spring City Flower Capital Exhibition Zone and Modern Science, Education, and Innovation City," with its industrial backbone, gateway status, and urban quality all taking on a new look over time.
Industrial transformation consolidates the foundation of the new city's development
Fifteen years ago, Chenggong was dominated by traditional agriculture. In 2011, Chenggong's gross regional product was 15.314 billion yuan; by 2025 it had leapt to 75.201 billion yuan, quadrupling in 15 years. From 2023 to 2025, it was selected for three consecutive years among the top 100 counties (districts) in comprehensive competitiveness in the western region. Behind these figures lies the overall upgrading of Chenggong District's industrial form.
Four major industrial clusters — the digital economy, the flower industry, big health and biomedicine, and modern services — have each taken shape in Chenggong. The digital economy ranks among the forefront of the province, and the Kunming Wanxichong Intelligent Computing Industrial Park has become the province's only intelligent computing industry cluster area. The Dounan flower industry's trading volume and transaction value have both exceeded 10 billion yuan, ranking first nationwide for 26 consecutive years, accounting for 70 percent of the national market share of fresh-cut flowers, and firmly holding the position of "first in Asia, second in the world." The big health and biomedicine industry is led by leading enterprises and has formed clusters; Yunnan Baiyao's smart factory has been selected as a "Global Lighthouse Factory in Manufacturing." Modern services, meanwhile, have gradually expanded the foundation of urban consumption with the growth of commercial districts and logistics bases. With industries taking off, Chenggong's development has gained genuine support.
Location transformation elevates the capacity of the open hub
In 2013, the southern section of Kunming Rail Transit Line 1 began operation, integrating Chenggong District into the "half-hour living circle" of Kunming's main urban area. In 2016, Kunming South Railway Station was completed and put into use, ushering Chenggong District into the high-speed rail era and realizing its transformation from a remote suburb of Kunming into a transportation hub. In 2021, the China-Laos Railway opened to full traffic, further opening up the arteries of openness toward South and Southeast Asia and pushing Chenggong District to upgrade from a node on an outward corridor to the forefront of opening up, making it an important gateway for Yunnan's "eight exits from the province, five exits from the country." From January to September 2026, Kunming South Railway Station handled more than 27.95 million passenger arrivals and departures, with flows of people, goods, and information converging here. Chenggong District has been upgraded from a remote suburb to a gateway hub.
A gateway is not just about the passage of people; it also requires industries to take root. Relying on Kunming South Railway Station, Chenggong District is converting "corridor traffic" into "economic retention." After the China-Laos Railway opened, Chenggong's functions as a digital information corridor and logistics node facing South and Southeast Asia have gradually become apparent, attracting more resources to stay in Chenggong.
Life transformation gathers vitality and popularity
The development of the new city is ultimately reflected in the daily lives of the people.
A city must not only have height, but also warmth. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Chenggong District completed the resettlement of 6,619 households and 17,413 residents, building 10,172 resettlement housing units totaling 1,076,700 square meters. In 2025, the district's general public budget expenditure on people's livelihood accounted for more than 70 percent, and per capita disposable income of residents exceeded 50,000 yuan. Newly built schools have continued to expand, and a "15-minute medical and health service circle" has been basically established.
Warmth settles people down, and vitality keeps talent here. Ten universities and colleges, with nearly 300,000 teachers and students, are concentrated in Chenggong, making it one of Yunnan's densest concentrations of intellectual resources. Science and education resources are not just "living in Chenggong"; the integration of industry and education is continuously stimulating urban vitality: government-enterprise-university cooperation, internships and practical training, and the transformation of achievements are gradually connecting the channels between universities and the locality, and "talent flows" are beginning to settle into "urban retention."
Once people stay, the city must also have a foundation that makes them willing to remain. Chenggong District's ecology is not an ornament; it is the foundation. At present, the urban green coverage rate is 45.63 percent, 199 parks of various kinds are widely scattered and numerous (星罗棋布, xing luo qi bu - "star, net, chess, pieces"), per capita park green space is 18.71 square meters, and "seeing green when opening the window, entering a park when leaving the door" has become the daily life of Chenggong residents.
Over the past 15 years, Chenggong District has worked diligently on its development blueprint, ushering in an all-round transformation and takeoff in industry, gateway functions, people's livelihood, science and education, and ecology. On the next leg of the journey, Chenggong District will anchor on the goal of "Spring City Flower Capital Exhibition Zone and Modern Science, Education, and Innovation City," continue to strive, and push forward from "accumulation in quantity" to "leap in quality." At 15 years of prime vitality, Chenggong sets out anew, fully embarking on its "second transformation."
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Kunming Chenggong District Committee
Return to TopThe Yellow River comes from the west and passes through the city eastward. Lanzhou, Gansu, is the only provincial capital city in China through which the Yellow River flows. This great river not only gives Lanzhou the appearance of "the Yellow River waterfront is also beautiful," but also entrusts Lanzhou with the mission of "taking the lead and setting an example in maintaining the health of the Yellow River's water body."
Lanzhou fully, accurately, and comprehensively implements the new development philosophy, using the Strong Provincial Capital Action as the overall guide and the "1139" work deployment as the overall lever, promoting Lanzhou's high-quality development and modernization drive to achieve new pioneering progress, breakthrough transformations, and landmark achievements. Since 2021, the total economic output has crossed two 50-billion-yuan thresholds in succession, and is expected to exceed 400 billion yuan in 2026; the economic growth rate has risen from 0.8% in 2022 to 5.5% in 2025, and the contribution rate to the province's economic growth has risen from 5.2% to 28%, with the economic primacy ratio maintained at around 30%. Industrial support capacity, innovation source capacity, transportation connectivity, opening-up leadership, and urban carrying capacity have all been significantly enhanced.
Building a Solid Ecological Barrier Painting a Green Scroll
To make the Yellow River a river of happiness benefiting the people, Lanzhou consciously shoulders the heavy responsibility of upstream ecological protection, unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and works together with one heart to sing the new era's "Yellow River Chorus."
The Baita Mountain is lush and verdant vegetation (层林叠翠, ceng lin die cui - "layer, forest, overlap, green"), and tourists on the Zhongshan Bridge stop to gaze into the distance. The blue sky, green mountains, and surging Yellow River are complementing each other beautifully (相映成趣, xiang ying cheng qu - "mutually, reflect, become, interest"). In recent years, Lanzhou has continuously fought the battles to defend blue skies, clear water, and clean soil.
The blue sky defense has been a sustained, long-term effort. Laser radar and drone patrols have established a three-dimensional monitoring network, and "Lanzhou Blue" has become an everyday sight. Protecting the Yellow River with precise measures, 19 automatic water quality monitoring stations and 251 sets of intelligent high-definition monitoring equipment provide round-the-clock monitoring of the 13,100-square-kilometer watershed of the Yellow River section in Lanzhou. The water quality excellence rate of national- and provincial-controlled sections on the main stream and tributaries has reached 100%, ensuring a river of clean water is sent downstream. Land greening efforts have continued without interruption. Generations of Lanzhou people have taken up the baton of tree planting, with continuous forest belts on the northern and southern mountains encircling the urban area, transforming former barren hills into the city's ecological lungs.
Mountains and waters merge, city and greenery coexist. A sound ecology has become the solid foundation for Lanzhou's implementation of the Strong Provincial Capital Action, accumulating lasting momentum for the city's high-quality development.
Strengthening the "Six Major Economies" New Quality Momentum Surging
The surging of the Yellow River depends on the living water at its source. The transformation of a city's growth drivers likewise depends on new quality productive forces injecting surging momentum.
Based on the city's actual conditions and in light of local conditions, Lanzhou, with the Strong Provincial Capital Action as the overall guide, focuses on strengthening the "six major economies": the metropolitan economy, county economy, development zone economy, private economy, digital economy, and open economy.
The metropolitan economy has expanded in capacity and improved in quality, with a cumulative total of 103 headquarters enterprises recognized. The county economy has broken through with distinctive features, with Chengguan District's total economic output exceeding 72 billion yuan, firmly ranking first in the province. The development zone economy has gathered momentum: Lanzhou New Area's economy has maintained double-digit growth for 13 consecutive quarters; a number of industrial projects in Lanzhou High-tech Zone have been completed and put into operation, with key projects accelerating construction; Lanzhou Economic Development Zone is steadily advancing the development and construction of the Beituo area, further highlighting its role as a growth pole. The private economy is bursting with vitality, with a full-chain policy support system constructed. The digital economy is gathering strength and empowering development, with the Lanzhou Chengguan District Intelligent Computing Center + Artificial Intelligence Large Model Industrial Park starting construction. The open economy's capacity has climbed to a new level, with a combined set of measures for the "four foreign" linkages deployed, and the city has been approved as a pilot city for the fifth batch of the national cross-border trade facilitation special action, with the combined effect of "corridors + hubs + freight trains" continuing to be released.
Innovation source capacity is leaping upward at an accelerated pace. Major national heavy equipment such as the heavy ion accelerator and a number of scientific and technological achievements have been industrialized. Self-developed products such as medical isotopes and 10,000-meter marine drilling rigs rank among the world's leading positions. Lanzhou has formed a batch of hard-core achievements "from laboratory to production line" in fields such as high-end equipment and biomedicine.
The "six major economies" work in coordination, achieving breakthroughs at multiple points. Emerging industries are rising up vigorously (蓬勃兴起, peng bo xing qi - "flourishing, rise"), driving Lanzhou's industrial development toward innovation and toward quality and strength.
Industrial Upgrading and Quality Improvement Creating a New Development Landscape
In Lanzhou's plan for high-quality development, traditional industries are not a burden, but a vehicle for old industries undergoing renewal (老树发新芽, lao shu fa xin ya - "old, tree, emit, new, bud").
Lanxin Steel Group Co., Ltd. has, over 25 years, achieved a magnificent leap forward (华丽跨越, hua li kua yue - "magnificent, leap") from a small steel plant to one of China's top 500 private manufacturing enterprises. The company has invested a cumulative total of 764 million yuan to implement comprehensive ultra-low emission treatment and renovation across all processes. After the renovation, all energy consumption and pollutant emission indicators have reached the advanced level of the industry.
The renewal of traditional industries has become the source of confidence for Lanzhou in building a modern industrial system.
In recent years, Lanzhou has accelerated the construction of a "3+2" modern industrial system — advanced manufacturing, modern urban agriculture, and modern services, working in coordination with the digital economy and the headquarters economy. The distinctive features of modern urban agriculture have become prominent, with the output value of the full industrial chain of specialty agriculture exceeding 30 billion yuan. Advanced manufacturing clusters have risen strongly, with the output value of the petrochemical industry exceeding 100 billion yuan, and the output value of the nonferrous metallurgy and new materials industries and the revenue of the biomedicine and data information industries all exceeding 50 billion yuan. The modern services industry is booming: Lanzhou beef noodle restaurants have more than 70,000 stores nationwide, with full-chain industry revenue exceeding 80 billion yuan; the "Night Cruise on the Yellow River Water Bus" was selected as an excellent case of tourism public services by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2023; and "the Yellow River waterfront is also beautiful" has become a nationally renowned slogan.
Cultivating Fertile Soil for Business Stimulating Development Vitality
Lanzhou is deeply advancing the "Optimizing the Business Environment to Create First-Class Standards" action, seeking dividends from reform, momentum from services, and vitality from institutions.
Government services are a window displaying the business environment. "Getting things done, doing things well, and doing things quickly" is the simple expectation of the public and enterprises. The government service assistance team in Xigu District provides full-process assistance and one-stop completion, saving the public trouble and worry. The Lanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone Taxation Bureau of the State Taxation Administration proactively coordinates with Guangxi tax authorities to complete online verification of data for enterprises' cross-regional advance tax payment and refund work, eliminating the cumbersome process of enterprises traveling across regions and submitting materials offline, improving the efficiency and convenience of cross-provincial and cross-regional tax handling, and making "zero-running" cross-regional tax handling the norm.
Services are extended to the front line, giving enterprises more confidence in development.
In Qishan Township, Yongdeng County, contiguous photovoltaic panels spread across the mountains and fields, and the third phase project of China Resources New Energy (Yongdeng) Co., Ltd. is in full swing. The local working group for stabilizing foreign investment conducts on-site work at the construction site, coordinating procedures, guaranteeing factors, and connecting with funds.
From small practical matters concerning people's livelihoods to large project industry services, Lanzhou continues to break through through reform and improve quality through services. A total of 48 key items of "efficiently completing one matter" have been launched and put into operation citywide, and 63,900 government service items have achieved "one-network handling." A total of 62 digital reform measures have been introduced, with the longest approval period for engineering construction projects being 30 days.
Increasing Livelihood Welfare Leaping Improvement in Urban Quality
Tackling "traffic congestion," opening up "dead-end roads," smoothing "micro-circulation," and alleviating "parking difficulties" — Lanzhou has in recent years continuously deepened the construction of "Smooth Travel Lanzhou," accelerated the connection with the outside and smooth flow within, optimized and improved the road network system and slow-traffic system, enhanced the linkage efficiency of main, secondary, and branch roads, promoted interconnection of important nodes, and better integrated into the city's comprehensive transportation "main artery." Coordinating dynamic and static traffic, advancing in an integrated manner the alleviation of congestion in key areas, the construction of parking facilities, and the management of traffic order, so that the public can travel more smoothly and live more comfortably.
As of now, 44 of the 60 "dead-end roads" in the main urban area have been opened up, with the goal of opening all of them by the end of this year; a cumulative total of 18 projects have been completed, including the Wuxingping lower interchange, the Jiuzhou underpass tunnel on the North Ring Road, and other node congestion-relief projects, as well as bus stop optimization, crossing facility renovation, and parking lot projects; of the 40 urban internal smooth-flow projects implemented this year, 11 have been completed, 20 are under construction, and 9 are undergoing preliminary procedures.
There is no small matter in people's livelihoods; every leaf and branch is a matter of concern. In the Lanhua 22nd Street Community on Fuli Road, Xigu District, community workers surveyed residents' demands and added 10 sets of standardized outdoor fitness equipment on site. The elderly stretch their muscles and bones, children play and frolic, and there is a good place for leisure right at the doorstep.
In the past five years, Lanzhou has focused on the construction of "good houses, good neighborhoods, good communities, and good urban areas," with the renovation of old residential communities simultaneously updating pipe networks and installing elevators; the construction of "Smooth Travel Lanzhou" has continued to deepen, with high-speed rail, expressways, and airports working in coordination; focusing on "the elderly and the young," elderly meal assistance and childcare spaces have entered streets and alleys... One by one, practical livelihood matters are taking root and becoming established (落地生根, luo di sheng gen - "land, earth, grow, root"), steadily supporting the people's aspirations for a better life.
Successfully establishing national-level internet backbone direct connection points, a national backbone cold chain logistics base, a national social credit system construction demonstration zone, a "zero-waste city," a national child-friendly city, and a national urban community embedded service facility construction city... Lanzhou's development answer sheet is written on the banks of the ever-flowing Yellow River, in the factory workshops surging with scientific and technological innovation, and in the streets, alleys, and communities lit by the lights of ten thousand households.
The great river surges eastward, and Jincheng is advancing at the right time. Standing at a new starting point of development, Lanzhou will unswervingly follow the path of ecological priority and green development, continue to strengthen industrial support, optimize urban functions, solidify ecological protection, deepen reform and opening up, and refine livelihood guarantees, blooming with even more splendid brilliance of the times on the banks of the Yellow River.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Lanzhou Municipal Committee
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General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Promote the extension of producer services toward specialization and the high end of the value chain, promote the high-quality, diversified, and convenient development of consumer services, cultivate more 'Service in China' brands, and strive to open up a new prospect for the high-quality development of the service industry."
At this year's CIIE, from the production sector to daily life, specialized, high-quality, and diversified services attracted considerable attention.
A mechanical "dexterous hand" lightly danced its fingers, and a precision reflective ball at the fingertips reflected a laser beam to a laser tracker opposite, measuring high-precision dynamic information in real time. At the Hexagon exhibition hall, this scene drew the curious gaze of many visitors.
"When a robot performs repetitive operations for a long time, the precision of finger operations may deviate. Through the combination of an absolute laser tracker and software services, finger trajectory positioning and calibration can be carried out to help the robot restore operational precision," said Zhou Lin, General Manager of Hexagon's Strategy and Commercial Operations Business Group. This full-lifecycle precision solution for embodied robots helps humanoid robots accelerate their path to the production line.
In light of the development needs of the Chinese market in frontier fields such as embodied intelligence, AI (artificial intelligence) semiconductors, and new energy vehicles, Hexagon precisely customizes relevant solutions to help upgrade industries. From the "CIIE debut" and "local layout" in 2019, to "technology taking root" and "deep cultivation and development," and then to "technology going global" and "ecosystem win-win," through the CIIE platform, more and more high-end and customized services are empowering Chinese enterprises and also reaching the global market.
"The CIIE is an open and sharing platform, and the company's cutting-edge technologies and new products are all exhibited on this stage. At the same time, thanks to the vigorous development of China's frontier industries and the rich and active application scenarios, local innovation originating from China is also accelerating its output, feeding back into the European and American markets," Zhou Lin said.
At this year's CIIE, the Services Trade Exhibition Area established a joint display zone for foreign-related legal services for the first time, bringing together multiple overseas legal professional institutions. Through case demonstrations, on-site consultations, thematic exchanges, and other forms, they collectively showcased service capabilities and achievements in fields such as cross-border investment and M&A, international trade compliance, and intellectual property protection.
The "black technology" of producer services drew admiration from visitors, while consumer services closely related to people's daily lives attracted even more visitors to stop and learn.
AI "figures" were everywhere in the Medical Devices and Health Care Products Exhibition Area. At the Philips booth, an angiography system attracted many visitors — three-dimensional imaging is generated quickly and with good quality, and intelligent image recognition technology helps improve surgical efficiency; in the diagnosis and treatment process, a consultation agent developed by Roche together with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory automatically extracts key information and generates structured trends in patient indicator changes, improving the patient experience.
At the InterContinental Hotels Group booth in the Services Trade Exhibition Area, an art installation designed with layered mountain ridges and an urban skyline as elements was very eye-catching. On the brand wall, the series of brands that have entered the Chinese market meet consumers' personalized accommodation needs.
"Having exhibited for nine consecutive years, we use the CIIE to showcase products and deepen cooperation, and brand introduction and hotel development have become smoother," said a relevant person in charge of InterContinental Hotels Group. China is an important strategic market for the group's development, and it will continue to deepen cooperation with local partners, operate every hotel better, empower local related industries, and let more consumers enjoy continuously improved service experiences.
Opening up not only brings more and more high-quality services into the Chinese market, but also opens up greater development space for domestic enterprises in related industries. Through exchanges and cooperation, it promotes the expansion and quality improvement of services in various fields, providing business entities and consumers with more specialized and personalized services.
On November 5, the Shandong–Multinational Corporations Producer Services High-Quality Development Exchange and Cooperation Conference was held. A centralized signing ceremony for key projects was held at the event, with a total of 20 key cooperation projects in producer services signed, covering fields such as R&D and design, freight transport, energy conservation and environmental protection services, and financial services, with a total investment of 4.3 billion yuan, injecting momentum into the expansion and quality improvement of local services.
Lightwheel Intelligence (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. participated in the CIIE for the first time. "We have brought a continuous learning system for embodied intelligence, which, as the name suggests, helps robots continuously learn and 'evolve,'" said Yang Haibo, co-founder and President of Lightwheel Intelligence. At present, the company has carried out cooperation with multiple high-level model teams around the world, and the scale of deliveries in fields such as data and simulation evaluation continues to increase.
Yang Haibo said that showcasing the company's own R&D achievements through the CIIE platform not only attracts potential customers but also hopes to meet more partners, working together to contribute to the development of fields such as embodied intelligence.
(Health Times reporters Han Jinxu and Hou Jiaxin participated in the writing)
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Forum after forum explored development opportunities, signing after signing built cooperation channels, and booth after booth presented innovative achievements... At the ninth CIIE, vivid scenes of encounter, reunion, and win-win results unfolded one after another.
Opening the scorecard from "1" to "9," the trajectory of the CIIE growing taller and stronger is perfectly clear and obvious (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, understand, clear")—
At the first CIIE, more than 3,600 enterprises exhibited; at the ninth CIIE, the number of overseas enterprises exhibiting reached 4,142, with more than 480 representative exhibits making their global debut, Asian premiere, or China first showing, setting a new record for the highest number in the event's history.
The accumulation of time, the buildup of achievements, and the growth of trust have enabled the CIIE to display the charm, strength, and appeal of an event that keeps getting better.
Getting better with each edition reflects the yardstick of industrial upgrading.
The CIIE is not only a showcase for new products, new technologies, and new services, but also an incubator for new quality productive forces. From 5G technology to 6G technology, from "humanoid five-finger hands" to "dexterous hands"... the "newness" content and "intelligence" content of exhibits are increasingly higher, and many star products from past years have already come to us, becoming tangible and perceptible parts of daily life.
The "newness" of the CIIE has extended to the collaborative upgrading of the entire industrial chain. Multinational enterprises bring not only advanced technology, but also deep cooperation with local Chinese enterprises. China's big market is becoming a global "strong magnetic field."
Getting better with each edition releases the CIIE's spillover effects.
The value of the CIIE transcends the exhibition period and the exhibition halls. Over the past nine years, the story of "exhibits becoming commodities, exhibitors becoming investors" has continued to unfold: relying on the "6 days + 365 days" trading service platform and the "365 Exhibition and Trade Network," diversified online and offline trade channels have enabled normalized display and trading after the exhibition; some have transformed from traders into investors, creating an industrial model of "produced in China, supplied to the world"; some have upgraded from serving the Chinese market to becoming regional R&D centers for the global market, allowing Chinese innovation to feed back to the world.
From technology landing to projects taking root, from convenient customs clearance to institutional opening-up, the CIIE's spillover effects are expanding from exhibit transactions to multiple dimensions such as industrial driving and investment promotion. When many "first-time visitors" become "permanent residents," the CIIE's platform role in cultivating innovation ecosystems and sharing development dividends becomes even more prominent.
Getting better with each edition embodies the vision of openness, connectivity, and common development.
Amid the changes of the CIIE, the underlying tone of open cooperation and shared opportunities remains unchanged. The world situation is complex and volatile, yet China has always kept its doors open, providing enterprises from all countries with certain development expectations.
The number of participating entities exceeded last year's figure, American enterprises' exhibition area has ranked first for eight consecutive editions, and the free booth area provided for the least developed countries increased by 17 percent year-on-year... While world openness has contracted considerably, China's relative position in openness has risen against the trend.
China has always, with the broad-mindedness of "when calculating benefits, one should calculate the benefits of the world," welcomed all countries to board China's development "express train." Behind such a sense of responsibility lies a major country's vision of working together for the common good of the world (同球共济, tong qiu gong ji - "same, sphere, together, cross"), as well as a commitment to shared prosperity and jointly creating the future.
Across nine editions, the CIIE has grown more "enduring" yet more "innovative." "Enduring" means, on the scale of time, cultivating the soil of trust, ecology, and industry; "innovative" is the result jointly brought about by expanding opening-up, industrial upgrading, and Sino-foreign cooperation. The encounters and reunions at the CIIE are business negotiations, but also the alignment of ideas, and the cooperative energy they release will continue to be nurtured and grow.
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At this year's CIIE, the Global National Brands Exhibition Zone, created for the first time, features a batch of global quality goods that have passed the "strict selection of local nationals." What surprises do these brands bring to consumers?
A piece of tweed, "seen" at the CIIE
Having participated in the CIIE for the first time and entered the Global National Brands Exhibition Zone, what is so special about the Linton Tweeds brand?
The answer lies in quality and innovation. Founded in 1912, Linton remains favored by many European luxury brands and is an important fabric supplier to them. In 2018, Linton established an overseas "new product rolling zero-cut warehouse" in Shanghai, through which Chinese brand owners and independent designers can directly access Linton's latest products.
In the view of Lu Hui, Linton's product specialist, China's apparel market is undergoing an upgrade from "recognizing labels" to "recognizing fabrics and craftsmanship." This is a major opportunity for Linton. "It means brand value no longer needs to hide behind the halo of luxury brands; it can directly engage in dialogue with Chinese consumers," Lu Hui said.
A wisp of fragrance, wafting from the CIIE into the Chinese market
The bond between Thai fragrance brand Pradara and China began at the CIIE.
The 2025 CIIE is the debut window for Pradara to enter the Chinese mainland market. "Chinese consumers not only pay attention to the fragrance itself, but also value product quality, cultural stories, and how fragrances integrate into daily life," said the head of Pradara's China operations.
Pradara's "Moon Osmanthus" fragrance draws inspiration from Chinese mythology, simulating a sensory journey from the Moon Palace to the mortal world. Pradara's experience of integrating into the Chinese market once again validates the boundless opportunities of "exporting to China."
In the Global National Brands Exhibition Zone of the CIIE, global quality brands connect with the Chinese market, and China's super-sized market has become a broad platform for global brands to share and win together.
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From industrial production to daily life, from technical equipment to medical devices, the 9th China International Import Expo presented audiences with a vivid panorama of the AI (artificial intelligence) ecosystem.
In the technical equipment exhibition area, a large blue shipping container drew visitors to stop and look. "This is a demonstration model of Intel's green-energy storage-computing integrated solution," an Intel staff member explained. "The coordination of energy storage, power, and computing can better provide electrical support for AI computing power."
A 6G terminal prototype, the sixth-generation AMD EPYC processor... This year's CIIE showcased a concentrated display of AI-related scientific and technological achievements.
At the GE Aerospace booth, the AI-empowered "borescope intelligent analysis system" was exhibited for the first time, accompanied by a training device simulating the casing structure of an aircraft engine. Staff inserted a borescope camera into the device for an "endoscope"-style inspection, allowing visitors to observe the condition of turbine blades inside the device. The system performs intelligent analysis on the returned images, and with AI assistance can identify subtle anomalies imperceptible to the naked eye. This system was independently developed by GE Aerospace's China team and is currently undergoing pilot applications at multiple engine maintenance organizations.
Germany's Kärcher brought its all-purpose cleaning robot KIRA B 200, suitable for automated cleaning in scenarios such as smart parks, with autonomous cleaning efficiency reaching up to 4,590 square meters per hour.
At the Sonova booth, staff were introducing the Phonak Kunlun AI hearing aid EON to visitors, who put on the device to experience and feel the effect of the simulated hearing aid.
In addition, Bosch exhibited the AI-Hybrid intelligent hybrid whole-home climate system; OSIM exhibited the AI 5-sense wellness chair... Walking into the various exhibition areas of the CIIE, the rich and diverse application scenarios of AI are vividly appearing before one's eyes (跃然眼前, yue ran yan qian - "jump, appear, eye, front").
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At the ninth CIIE, a batch of cutting-edge achievements empowering industries and benefiting people's livelihoods made a splendid debut.
This year marks Johnson Controls' ninth visit to the CIIE. In recent years, Johnson Controls has continuously provided cooling and heating management equipment to new energy enterprises, helping them achieve green transformation. Visal Leng, President of Johnson Controls Asia Pacific, said that Johnson Controls has been working intensively in the Chinese market (深耕, shen geng - "deep, plow") for more than 30 years, accumulating deep manufacturing capabilities, service capabilities, green practices, and global collaboration outcomes, and "will continue to transform Chinese innovation, Chinese manufacturing, and Chinese practices into global value in the future."
Innovative releases in the medical device field extend the momentum of industrial upgrading into livelihood scenarios that safeguard life and health.
On November 7, Johnson & Johnson MedTech signed an agreement with Jiangsu Changyida Medical Technology Co., Ltd. to deepen cooperation on the new-generation flow diversion stent "Qiangyida PLUS," writing a vivid footnote for the product's journey from global debut to industrial practice. Zhang Jiuli, General Manager of Changyida, stated: "This cooperation provides new impetus for the further transformation and application of innovative products."
From exhibition booth to clinical setting, the spillover effect of the CIIE amplifies the value of exhibiting brands. At the fourth CIIE in 2021, Johnson & Johnson's MONARCH endoluminal surgical robot completed its Asian debut and subsequently received approval for market launch, being adopted by multiple top-tier hospitals, transforming from a "booth star" into a "clinical mainstay."
Zhou Mintao, President of Johnson & Johnson MedTech China, said that at this year's CIIE, Johnson & Johnson brought over a hundred innovative achievements, more than ten of which are global or China premieres. "A premiere is the starting point of the next round of innovation." During the CIIE, Johnson & Johnson has reached cooperation agreements with multiple Chinese enterprises to accelerate the transformation and implementation of more outstanding innovative achievements, responding to China's evolving clinical needs.
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At the ninth CIIE, the booth of the Sinar Mas Group's APP was lush and full of greenery (绿意盎然, lv yi ang ran - "green, meaning, overflowing"), like a forest. This paper company from Indonesia has extended its production chain upward. "The company has its own forest farms, pulp mills, and paper mills, enabling a green cycle of 'nurturing paper with forests, promoting forests with paper, and integrating forests and paper,'" a booth staff member explained.
At this year's CIIE, a large number of innovative lifestyle products focusing on green and low-carbon development, home-based health care for the elderly, and convenient travel made their collective debut.
In the consumer goods exhibition area, a low-sweetness flaxseed peach crisp specially improved for elderly people with reduced chewing ability sparked a tasting craze; progressive lenses that look identical to ordinary glasses cater to the psychological sensitivities of the young-old population, compensating for the inconvenience caused by visual decline, putting in significant effort (下足功夫, xia zu gong fu - "put, down, effort, work") in the details.
"I didn't expect so many new things to be equally suitable for us young-old people," remarked Aunt Wang, who came to visit the exhibition. At the CIIE site, the silver-haired demographic is no longer passively cared for, but rather touches, experiences, compares, and selects products as users, putting forward more diverse and practical demands on products.
The huge base of the elderly population has accumulated enormous market potential for the silver economy, and the CIIE has built an important platform where global innovations adapted for the elderly converge.
"The CIIE is not only a window for showcasing new products, but also an excellent platform for directly facing end users," said Zhang Jie, general manager of operations and management at Shanghai Health and Elderly Care Group. Chen Luyi, vice president of public affairs for EssilorLuxottica China, also values the CIIE highly: "Here, domestic and overseas companies can listen up close to the genuine demands of the elderly, allowing local elderly-care needs and globally advanced design concepts to blend with each other."
Following the aroma of coffee, visitors held freshly made coffee from the booth's coffee bar and admired the surrounding displays of Ralph Lauren. "The CIIE provides us with a more direct and in-depth opportunity to communicate with Chinese consumers, partners, and people from all walks of life, allowing us to listen to the ever-changing needs and aspirations of Chinese consumers," said Cai Xinhui, CEO of Ralph Lauren Asia Pacific.
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At the Shanghai Hongqiao Imported Commodity Exhibition and Trading Center (hereinafter referred to as "Hongqiao Pin Hui"), tens of thousands of products identical to those featured at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) are on display year-round. "Our role is to absorb the spillover effect of the CIIE, turning products making their debut or first launch into goods sold at physical stores throughout the year, while relying on cross-border e-commerce and the Hongqiao Bonded Logistics Center to achieve a 'store in front, warehouse behind' model," said Zhu Jing, deputy general manager of Hongqiao Pin Hui.
At Hongqiao Pin Hui, many products have become "internet-famous" items in Chinese households' shopping carts, and Danone's Neocate water milk is one of them. In 2018, Danone participated in the CIIE for the first time and has attended every year since, achieving a leap from "exhibitor" to "investor."
"This year, we have as many as nine new products making their debut. For us, the CIIE is not just a six-day exhibition, but a channel for new products to enter the Chinese market," said Bruno Chevot, president of Danone Greater China and CEO of Danone China.
Two years ago, Neocate water milk entered China through cross-border e-commerce channels with the help of the CIIE platform. Two years later, the same product series has achieved localized production at Danone's expanded and newly operational Wuxi plant.
On the shelves at Hongqiao Pin Hui, the story of a pack of fire chicken noodles is equally representative.
This pack of fire chicken noodles comes from South Korea's Samyang Foods. In 2020, Samyang Foods brought fire chicken noodles to the CIIE for the first time, at the time still using a small booth set up with the help of an agent.
"Unexpectedly, the booth drew long queues for several consecutive days, and consumer response was particularly good," said Zhang Chi, director of external communications at Samyang Foods. The South Korean headquarters set up a company in China the following year. The China regional headquarters was located in the Hongqiao International Central Business District, right next to the National Exhibition and Convention Center, the venue of the CIIE. Since then, Samyang Foods has attended every CIIE, and fire chicken noodles have become increasingly popular in China.
Shanghai has established a "6 days + 365 days" year-round exhibition and sales mechanism. Today, Hongqiao Pin Hui has brought together products identical to those at the CIIE from more than 120 countries, covering over 6,000 brands and 85,000 product lines.
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At the Global National Brands Exhibition Area, shoe care products from Canada drew the attention of visitors. "Our first appearance has been very rewarding. We have felt China's openness and will seize the opportunity to deepen our presence in the Chinese market," said Tim Walter, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vitsi Shoe Care.
Also reaping a full harvest was Pang Zhenhong, China Market Manager of New Zealand's Parakai Honey Limited. "In our third year participating in the CIIE, we have brought our newly developed honey water products, and dozens of companies have already expressed interest in cooperation," Pang said. The company has established operations in Tongzhou District, Beijing, and its next step will be to continue expanding its market.
At this year's CIIE, the exhibition area of Canadian and New Zealand enterprises was the largest in the history of the event. Many enterprises came with products and returned with orders, and against the backdrop of tangible win-win cooperation, the hallmark of openness has grown ever more pronounced.
One "first" after another, one "new high" after another — the CIIE keeps setting records. South African sweet cherries, Australian avocados, Italian aquatic products... this year, a number of specialty agricultural products made their debut at the CIIE through special approval. "We must both hold the bottom line of national security at the border and provide warm support for exhibitors, helping the CIIE to be held ever better," said Chang Zhemin, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Center Customs.
At this year's CIIE, the Asia-Africa Products Zone was further upgraded, helping African countries with diplomatic ties to China seize the opportunity of zero tariffs, and the exhibition area of African enterprises grew steadily.
An exhibitor from Rwanda said that the CIIE's free exhibition booths helped African enterprises save on costs.
At the booth of China Baowu Steel Group, a sample of iron ore attracted attention. It was mined by Baowu Resources Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the group, at the Simandou project in Guinea, and more than ten million tonnes of iron ore have now been shipped to China. The project's construction has created tens of thousands of jobs for the people of Guinea and has promoted the development of infrastructure such as roads, schools, and hospitals, helping to improve the living standards of local residents.
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Openness brings opportunities, and cooperation leads to win-win outcomes. The "Export to China Capacity Development Report 2026," released during the 9th China International Import Expo, shows that China's share of global exports absorbed rose from 3.2 percent in 2000 to 9.2 percent in 2025, with China expanding from an important production hub into an important demand hub.
President Xi Jinping stressed that "China is accelerating the development of new quality productive forces and steadily expanding institutional opening-up, and is willing to turn the Chinese market into a market for the world and a market shared by all."
In the first nine months of this year, China's imports reached 16.7 trillion yuan, up 22.3 percent year on year, the fastest growth rate since 2021. Large in scale, new in growth drivers, and firm in resolve — through the window of the CIIE, the vitality of China's super-sized market is clearly visible.
Having great prospects (大有可为, da you ke wei - "great"): A super-sized market lays a solid foundation of opportunities
For exhibits to become commodities, a super-sized market is the key support.
On the JD Health channel, Haleon's transaction volume in 2025 grew over 50 percent year on year, precisely reaching over 5 million people suffering from pain; in the first nine months of this year, sales of related products from Boehringer Ingelheim and AstraZeneca performed strongly... Such report cards have led multiple pharmaceutical companies to deepen their presence in China. At this year's CIIE, JD Health signed centralized agreements with more than 20 global pharmaceutical and health brands including Pfizer, Merck, and Novo. In the first nine months of this year, JD Health launched over 100 new drugs online for the first time, exceeding the total for the whole of last year.
The Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, de la Mora, cited several examples: from 2001 to 2025, Colombia's exports to China grew from 27 million US dollars to nearly 5 billion US dollars; South Africa's exports to China grew substantially, and China has become South Africa's largest export market.
Behind this growth lies the depth with which China's super-sized market underpins the world economy. China is not only one of the fastest-growing large markets, but also an important force supporting the steady growth of global demand.
New trends surging: Upgrading trends expand room for growth
The appeal of the super-sized market also lies in continuous upgrading and constant innovation.
In line with China's consumption upgrading trend, the intelligent rice molecular breeding navigation system developed by Syngenta Group has shortened the breeding cycle by 3 to 5 years, and the high-quality rice variety "Keyouxiang 66" it bred has good appearance and excellent quality.
"The Chinese market is increasingly nurturing global agricultural innovation, leveraging its advantages in diverse application scenarios, abundant research talent, and coordinated industrial transformation to provide practical solutions for solving agricultural challenges in Asia and even the world," said Su Fu, President of Syngenta Group China. Deeply integrated into China's innovation ecosystem, Syngenta has established the Syngenta China Innovation Center for Crop Protection in Jinshan, Shanghai, and set up a Global Rice Technology Innovation Center in Hefei, Anhui.
Changes on the demand side are reshaping the supply side along the industrial chain.
At this year's CIIE, Italy's Pirelli Group's 02 series truck and bus tires made their Asia-Pacific debut, converting real data accumulated under the extreme conditions of the Dakar Rally into targeted optimization for China's complex road conditions. "The Chinese market has higher requirements for tire load capacity and energy efficiency. Our MH02 tire launched this time focuses on ultra-long mileage and ultra-low energy consumption, and currently all four molds are running at full capacity with full sales," said Yao Hui, CEO of Pirelli Group Asia-Pacific.
This year marks the 30th year of Danish company Danfoss's development in China. In 2025, Danfoss's China business achieved 13 percent sales growth, and China is one of its strongest growth markets globally. At this year's CIIE, the company showcased its latest achievements in areas such as green computing infrastructure, thermal decarbonization, and green refrigeration. "China is continuously advancing high-quality development, accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces, and promoting the green transformation of the economy and society, which will release enormous development opportunities," said Xu Yang, President of Danfoss China.
The innovation coordinates of multinational enterprises are moving upward together with the upgrading of Chinese market demand. A Chinese market where new growth drivers continue to emerge is becoming an important source of growth for global development.
Firm resolve like a rock: Steadfast opening-up achieves mutual benefit and win-win outcomes
Growth drivers are endless and continuous (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "life, life, not, stop"), and opportunities are streaming continuously (源源不断, yuan yuan bu duan - "source, source, not, continuous"). China's commitment to high-level opening-up is unwavering, and the vitality of China's super-sized market is surging.
On November 6, the American company "Of Course Buy" held a strategic signing ceremony with its Chinese partners. Ten years ago, the company's chairman Ren Jiajie first came to China, wanting to promote products but "not knowing where to start." It was the CIIE that later provided the opportunity. Over the past decade, he has visited China five times, and the company's annual sales have grown from one to two million US dollars to five to six million US dollars. Half a month ago, the brand opened an overseas flagship store on Tmall, further expanding its channels in China. "Open, certain, and sustained" is how this company evaluates the Chinese market.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of China's accession to the WTO. Over the past 25 years, China has fully fulfilled its WTO accession commitments and unwaveringly opened up to the outside world, with the overall tariff level falling from 15.3 percent at the time of accession to 7.3 percent, far below the average level of developing countries and close to the average level of developed countries. Among the 160 service trade sub-sectors classified by the WTO, China committed to opening about 100 upon accession and has actually opened more than 120.
To enable more trading partners to share in China's opportunities, the Ministry of Commerce has actively organized a series of "Export to China" activities. As of the end of October this year, nearly 80 "Export to China" events have been held both domestically and abroad, with on-site contract signing amounts exceeding 10 billion US dollars.
As the world's first national-level exhibition themed on imports, the CIIE is held regularly every year, with the number of participating enterprises repeatedly setting new records, fully demonstrating the "magnetic attraction" of the Chinese market. This year marks the opening year of China's 15th Five-Year Plan. China is focusing on building a strong domestic market, sharing development opportunities and expanding growth space with countries around the world, and working hand in hand to steadily advance the open world economy.
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Ice cubes clink softly as liquor and fruit juice blend in the shaker, and a blue-green signature cocktail, "Splendid Heart," is handed to a visitor. At this year's CIIE, Wuliangye launched an interactive experience activity, inviting visitors to feel the cultural heritage and innovative development of Chinese baijiu through viewing and conversation.
"I rarely tried cocktails made with baijiu before. This time I not only tasted a new flavor, but also learned about Wuliangye's brewing story, and even received a badge incorporating Shanghai landmark elements — a very rewarding experience," said one visitor who took part.
Wuliangye first participated in the CIIE in 2018 and has been a "full-attendance" exhibitor at every session since. This year, Wuliangye's exhibition hall continued to upgrade its displays and experiences, presenting brewing heritage and innovative exploration on site through product introductions, cultural explanations, signature cocktail tastings, and other formats. With richer forms of expression, it showcases the quality and culture of Chinese baijiu to domestic and international merchants, continuously expanding the space for exchange and cooperation.
The exhibition hall has been refreshed with the Yangtze River as its thread. Through flowing installations echoing Yibin's brewing origins, the hall tells the story of the brand's journey from the head of the Yangtze to the world. The layout employs a dual narrative of spatial line and story line, using miniature models of the eight ancient workshops, a thousand-year timeline, and the five-character formula of "planting, brewing, selecting, aging, and blending" to display Wuliangye's brewing craftsmanship. Products on display include the eighth-generation Wuliangye, 501 Wuliangye, zodiac wine, CIIE commemorative wine, and the "Harmonious Beauty Sichuan" customized wine, bringing together classics, cultural creations, and customized liquors. With the culture of harmony and beauty at its core, it conveys to the world Wuliangye's brand aspiration of connecting China and abroad and jointly pursuing a better future.
New tasting methods make exchange more vivid. The "Splendid Heart" signature cocktail uses Wuliangye's Yijian Qingxin 29-degree baijiu as its base, paired with pineapple juice and other ingredients, blending baijiu flavors into a cocktail experience and offering visitors a new entry point for understanding Chinese baijiu. From classic products to low-alcohol products, from traditional tasting to creative mixed drinks, Wuliangye is exploring new expressions that adapt to diverse consumer needs.
Culture is also woven into the smallest details. Custom badges combine Shanghai landmarks, waves, and liquor bottles, letting visitors take home a memory of the CIIE. Fine liquor and cultural creations echo each other, extending the brand story from narration on the exhibition stand to an experience that can be participated in and shared.
The CIIE is both a platform for economic and trade cooperation and a window for cultural exchange. For Chinese baijiu enterprises, participating in the CIIE offers both the opportunity to showcase quality and connect with merchants, and the space to understand different consumption habits and enhance cultural identity.
From the CIIE engagement to overseas exchanges, Wuliangye continues to explore ways of conversing with the world. In recent years, Wuliangye has carried out cross-border brand cultural exchange activities such as the "Harmonious Beauty Global Tour," promoting mutual reinforcement between brand culture dissemination and international market expansion. Looking ahead, Wuliangye will continue to uphold the value philosophy of "harmonious coexistence and shared beauty," and, relying on international platforms such as the CIIE, share open opportunities and jointly create a future of development with global partners.
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At this year's CIIE medical devices and healthcare products exhibition area, a scene on the booth of Yingkang Life, the big-health ecological brand under Haier Group, drew many visitors to stop and watch: inside a sample pre-processing workstation, a suspended robotic arm moved flexibly between different functional zones, dispatching samples to complete separation, extraction, purification, and other experimental operations. The entire process required no step-by-step manual operation by researchers; they only needed to state their experimental requirements, and AI (artificial intelligence) could autonomously design the experimental workflow, and after simulation verification, direct the robotic arm and various functional modules to collaboratively complete the experiment.
"This is the AI + sample aliquoting, extraction, and purification workstation (DreamFlow·E) that we are launching and exhibiting for the first time at this year's CIIE," said Cao Jinghui, R&D director of digital-intelligent sample industry automation under Haier Biomedical, a subsidiary of Yingkang Life. Compared with traditional manual operation, this device has higher sample pre-processing efficiency, can also reduce the variability caused by human operation, improve the consistency of sample processing, and achieve full traceability of the experimental process. For different experimental requirements, the device can be flexibly configured with functional modules such as filtration, automatic cap opening/closing, barcode scanning and identification, and pipetting, enabling automated extraction of different components such as plasma and buffy coat, providing support for cohort studies, immunology research, and exploration of disease mechanisms.
"Since the opening of this year's CIIE, several groups of business visitors have come to consult every day, showing strong interest in cooperation, and some have already signed letters of intent to purchase," Cao Jinghui said.
The CIIE is both a stage for global new-product debuts and a booster for the landing of industrial innovation. Yingkang Life has been attending the scheduled event (赴约, fu yue - "go to, meet appointment") of the CIIE for seven consecutive years. This year, they brought more than 40 innovative achievements, over 60 percent of which are first launches and first exhibitions, collectively presenting the collaborative practices of the three industries of life sciences, clinical medicine, and biopharmaceuticals, empowering multi-scenario solutions with AI, and showcasing the closed-loop industrial ecosystem of "basic research—clinical validation—drug development."
At this year's CIIE, Yingkang Life also released its "1+3+X" AI strategic blueprint and its latest achievements. According to the introduction, the life-and-health large model IncGPT independently developed by Yingkang Life has completed filing, and the AI agent "Xiaoying" has cumulatively formed nearly a thousand AI native applications, becoming an intelligent partner connecting laboratories, hospitals, and households.
In recent years, Yingkang Life has innovated an AI + proactive health management platform to promote the expansion and downward extension of quality medical resources; addressing unmet treatment needs, the SR604 injection has completed registration for a Phase III clinical trial for the indication of prevention of bleeding in hemophilia A/B, exploring new preventive treatment options for patients; and it has worked to raise the conversion rate of medical science and technology achievements, linking industry, academia, and research to jointly build the medical-engineering innovation industrialization platform "Haiyihui," cumulatively promoting the conversion of 25 innovative technologies.
"The CIIE is an important window for us to observe global trends and connect with ecosystem partners," said Zhang Dandan, general manager of the Yingkang Life brand. "Taking the CIIE as an opportunity, we will continue to integrate AI innovation and open co-creation into the global public health system, contributing to the building of a global community of health for all." At present, Yingkang Life's products and services cover more than 160 countries and regions, cumulatively benefiting over a hundred million users.
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On November 9, in front of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum theme exhibition at this year's China International Import Expo, Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum in London, paused in his steps. On the display rack were dinosaur skull scans, fossil replicas, and "dinosaur grab toys" that he was "all too familiar with" — these were cultural and creative products he had mailed from the United Kingdom to Shanghai a week earlier, all originating from his museum.
At this year's CIIE, the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum theme exhibition made its debut, featuring exhibition areas such as "Immersive Science Popularization VR (Virtual Reality)" and cultural and creative products from domestic museums, accompanied by a five-continent animal specimen exhibition, an "Heaven and Earth Star Language" astronomy exhibition, meteorite musical instruments, and the intelligent robot "Xuan Yong," among others. It also invited directors of foreign natural history museums to visit the CIIE in Shanghai and engage in dialogue. Cultural and creative products from foreign natural history museums were also showcased together at the booth.
"We have an imaging laboratory that has participated in scanning real fossils, helping to produce replicas that people can buy. These are all exhibits popular with young audiences," Doug Gurr said with a smile.
Lisa LeBlanc, Director of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, brought exhibits consisting of the periodic table of elements printed on silk ties and scarves. "It represents the universal basic elements that connect all of us, embodying the scientific method, humanity's pursuit of knowledge, and a scientific language that transcends national borders and cultural boundaries," Lisa LeBlanc explained in this way the reason for bringing these exhibits to Shanghai.
The foreign directors walked along the exhibition route, looking as they went: from dinosaur skulls to star poetry, from scanned data to plush merchandise, the theme exhibition spread scientific culture and carried out dialogue and exchange in ways well-received and popular with the public (喜闻乐见, xi wen le jian - "happy, hear, enjoy, see"). Some remarked that coming to the CIIE was like a cross-border "unboxing": the museum's cultural and creative products were merely the prelude, behind which lay a vast collection of specimens and long-term scientific research, building a platform for more international exchange and cooperation.
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During this year's China International Import Expo (CIIE), at the State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Zhuguang 110 kV substation, not far from the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), a large screen displayed in real time the operating status of the venue's upstream power sources and surrounding power supply lines. The State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Panoramic Smart Power Supply Assurance System 9.0 monitored equipment operation around the clock, issuing an immediate early warning the moment any anomaly was detected.
"Once a fault occurs, artificial intelligence assesses the scope of impact and pushes the repair work order directly to us, which is much faster than before," said Zhang Yun, an engineer with State Grid Shanghai Qingpu Power Supply Company.
Having safeguarded the CIIE for nine consecutive years, State Grid Shanghai Electric Power has continuously upgraded its power assurance measures. This year, technologies such as intelligent monitoring, intelligent operation and maintenance, and intelligent emergency response have been further applied on the front line of power assurance, striving to resolve risks before faults occur.
In the West Hongqiao area where the CIIE venue is located, the deeply buried underground cables have a "sensitive ear" — this is distributed acoustic sensing technology, which uses existing communication optical cables in the cable channels to capture abnormal vibrations. After training on samples of more than 20 types of vibrations, the artificial intelligence model can identify the type of construction machinery within seconds, with an accuracy rate of over 95 percent.
This technology was put into practical application in Shanghai in July this year. Not long ago, on the sidewalk of Fengdan Road in West Hongqiao, a construction crew began excavating without prior approval. The monitoring system captured periodic impact signals, quickly identified the operation as that of an excavator breaker hammer, and linked with nearby cameras to confirm the on-site situation. Operation and maintenance personnel received the highest-level early warning work order, arrived at the scene in time, and halted the construction before it touched the cables.
Inside the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the smart power assurance digital twin system operated stably, with partial discharge monitoring devices installed on 60 switchgear cabinets, voiceprint detection devices installed on 10 transformer sets, and data from more than 5,000 monitoring points transmitted back in real time.
"The equipment in the exhibition halls and booths cannot lose power for even a moment; our job is to be acting ahead of others to secure an advantage (抢在前头, qiang zai qian tou - "grab, at, front, head")," said Zhao Fangfang, customer representative of State Grid Shanghai Qingpu Power Supply Company.
Extending outward from the venue, the Shanghai main power grid smart operation and maintenance platform was applied for the first time this year to CIIE power assurance, conducting round-the-clock intelligent inspections of key stations and lines and of transmission channels bringing external power into Shanghai. Wu Qiong, an engineer with State Grid Shanghai Extra-High Voltage Company, said the platform can automatically mark key stations and lines and issue inspection tasks with one click, "freeing up more of our energy to keep watch on equipment and guard the channels on site."
Green energy use is also a major highlight of this year's CIIE. Through multiple trading channels including cross-regional, Yangtze River Delta, and local green electricity markets, State Grid Shanghai Electric Power served the venue's cumulative procurement of more than 15 million kWh of green electricity from October to November, achieving a fully green-powered exhibition for the fourth consecutive year.
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At the SPD Bank booth in the Service Trade Exhibition Area of this year's CIIE, visitors lightly touch the AI (artificial intelligence) interactive screen interface and can be immersively "walked" into scenarios such as cross-border settlement, offshore services, and technology finance. In a corner of the booth, CIIE badges and journal stickers are handed one by one to visitors, and the "Come to SPD" series of IP images are full of charm and endearing qualities (憨态可掬, han tai ke ju - "charming, can be embraced"), reflecting innovative content everywhere.
The plan continues to iterate. The CIIE comprehensive financial service plan released at each year's CIIE is SPD Bank's centerpiece. As the CIIE is held for its ninth session, SPD Bank's CIIE comprehensive financial service plan has also iterated to version 9.0. This year's comprehensive financial service plan covers cross-border financial service plans for corporate clients, cross-border financial service plans for individual clients, as well as featured service plans for green finance, technology finance, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Promoting cooperation and exchange. At this year's CIIE, SPD Bank's booth has been comprehensively expanded and upgraded. While showcasing its own development history and financial services, it has specially set up a customer product display area to help enterprises expand business opportunities and connect with global resources. During the CIIE, SPD Bank held 15 "Cross-Border Peer Exchange" events, covering themes such as free trade finance, technology finance, Greater Bay Area featured finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border risk hedging. Through a series of client salons and lectures, SPD Bank hopes to strengthen exchange and cooperation with all parties, continuously expand its cross-border "circle of friends," and share new opportunities in global economic development.
Facilitating cross-border payments. In the field of digital payments, SPD Bank actively explores the application of the central bank digital currency in cross-border payment scenarios, committed to providing cross-border enterprises with efficient, low-cost digital fund settlement solutions. Centering on serving CIIE cross-border transactions, SPD Bank has launched a featured service plan for offshore financial innovation pilots, covering four major scenarios: offshore business financial services, free trade offshore bonds, offshore RMB foreign exchange trading, and treasury centers. On the merchant acceptance end, SPD Bank's Shanghai Branch has expanded the coverage scope of foreign card acceptance, covering industries such as hotels and catering, so that foreign guests can pay smoothly when consuming in Shanghai. On the branch service end, it has set up exclusive service channels for overseas visitors to China. In addition, self-service equipment has been precisely deployed, with locations spread across branches near airports, hotels, and various tourist attractions, providing 24-hour foreign currency exchange services that can be withdrawn and used at any time.
Since 2018, SPD Bank has served the CIIE for nine consecutive years. In the future, SPD Bank will keep pace with the country's high-level opening up, serve the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and Shanghai's "five centers" development, continuously optimize financial services, and help make the CIIE better and better with each passing year.
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Ethnic affairs work is an important component of the work of the Party and the state, bearing on national unification and the consolidation of border areas, bearing on ethnic unity and social stability, and bearing on the long-term stability and peace (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, lasting; stable, peaceful") of the country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Volumes I through V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China include a series of important documents by General Secretary Xi Jinping on ethnic affairs work. From the proposal in Volume I that "realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation since modern times," to the systematic summary in Volume II of the basic connotations of "the correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics," to the creative proposal in Volume III of the major thesis of "forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation" and the emphasis that "in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, not a single person can be left behind; on the road to common prosperity, not a single person can be allowed to fall behind," to the comprehensive and systematic summary in Volume IV, through the "twelve musts," of the Party's important thinking on strengthening and improving ethnic affairs work, and then to the comprehensive elaboration in Volume V of the scientific connotations of "the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation" and the proposal of "advancing the building of the community of the Chinese nation" and "in advancing Chinese modernization and realizing common prosperity, not a single ethnic group can be left behind," these works vividly present the historical picture of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core leading the high-quality development of the cause of ethnic unity and progress in our country since the 18th National Congress of the Party, systematically outline the important trajectory of the formation and development of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thinking on strengthening and improving ethnic affairs work, and open up, from both theory and practice, a new realm of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist ethnic theory.
On the new journey, earnestly studying and comprehending the important expositions on ethnic affairs work in Volumes I through V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China is of very important theoretical and practical significance for us to further forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, advance the building of the community of the Chinese nation, and promote Chinese modernization through the great unity of the Chinese nation.
Deeply understand that the path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics is a correct choice that respects history, conforms to national conditions, and accords with the will of the people
The path determines destiny; the path changes destiny. What path a country takes and what model it chooses in solving ethnic problems must proceed from its own national conditions. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to ethnic problems in the world; only by taking a path rooted in the country's own history and reality can one solve ethnic problems and go far and steadily. Reviewing the Party's more than one hundred years of struggle, the greatest achievement of the Party's ethnic affairs work is the creative establishment of a correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics. The article "Fully Implementing the Party's Ethnic and Religious Policies," included in Volume II, systematically summarizes the basic connotations of this path, namely, "upholding leadership by the Communist Party of China, upholding the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, upholding the safeguarding of national unification, upholding equality of all ethnic groups, upholding and improving the system of regional ethnic autonomy, upholding the common struggle and common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups, upholding the consolidation of the ideological foundation of the community of the Chinese nation, upholding law-based governance, strengthening exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, promoting harmonious coexistence, working together with one heart to overcome difficulties (和衷共济, he zhong gong ji - "harmonious, heart; together, cross rivers"), and harmonious development among all ethnic groups, consolidating and developing socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony, and jointly realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
This correct path is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Communist Party of China in combining Marxist ethnic theory with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture. This path both adheres to the basic Marxist position on ethnic equality and fully draws on the concept of a concept of a unified multi-ethnic state (大一统, da yi tong - "great, one, unify") accumulated over thousands of years by the Chinese nation and the governance wisdom of harmonious coexistence, enabling Marxist ethnic theory to take deep root in the fertile soil of China's history and reality. Since its founding, our Party has attached great importance to ethnic issues and ethnic affairs work and has prudently handled various ethnic relations. After the founding of New China, the Party established ethnic theory and ethnic affairs work principles and policies with ethnic equality, ethnic unity, regional ethnic autonomy, and common prosperity of all ethnic groups as the main content, and set up the institutional framework for our country's ethnic affairs work. During the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, the Party firmly grasped the theme of common struggle and common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups, introduced a series of major measures to support the economic and social development of ethnic regions, and achieved significant progress in the development of ethnic regions. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has emphasized such concepts as the big family of the Chinese nation, the community of the Chinese nation, forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and advancing the building of the community of the Chinese nation, clearly proposed making the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation the main line of the Party's ethnic affairs work in the new era and the main line of all work in ethnic regions, further expanded the correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics, and promoted new historic achievements in the Party's ethnic affairs work in the new era.
This correct path is a great pioneering undertaking of the Communist Party of China in correctly understanding and handling ethnic relations and solving ethnic problems. The article "Advancing the Building of the Community of the Chinese Nation," included in Volume V, points out that "this path focuses on the fundamental interests and overall interests of the Chinese nation, maximizes the cohesion of all ethnic groups, and realizes the common struggle and common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups," profoundly elucidating the unique advantages and direction of progress of this path; it emphasizes that "this path upholds the equality of all ethnic groups, opposes ethnic oppression and ethnic discrimination, and ensures that people of all ethnic groups truly obtain equal political rights and jointly become masters of the country," profoundly summarizing the value concepts and the way to success of this path; it emphasizes that "this path correctly grasps the relationship between safeguarding national unification and implementing regional ethnic autonomy, adheres to the combination of unification and autonomy and the combination of ethnic factors and regional factors, and promotes the Chinese nation becoming a community of shared destiny with higher recognition and stronger cohesion," profoundly elucidating the important principles and fundamental tasks of this path. This correct path takes into account both the unity of the state and the particularities of ethnic groups, both holds the bottom line of national unification and safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of people of all ethnic groups, and realizes the organic unity of overall interests and the specific interests of all ethnic groups. Under the guidance of this path, our Party has always taken the safeguarding of national unification and ethnic unity as the highest interest of all ethnic groups, working together in common struggle and common prosperity and development.
This correct path is an effective route for transforming development achievements into tangible results in enhancing ethnic unity, forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and strengthening the building of the community of the Chinese nation. After the founding of New China, we promoted some ethnic regions to "leap across a thousand years in one step," and all ethnic groups achieved genuine equality, unity, and progress under the socialist system. Entering the new era, ethnic regions, together with the rest of the country, won the battle against poverty and built a moderately prosperous society in all respects, achieving a historic leap from poverty and backwardness to moderate prosperity in all respects and creating a miracle in human history that will be recorded in the annals. Along this path, the features of the people of all ethnic groups in our country, the features of ethnic regions, the features of ethnic relations, and the features of the Chinese nation have all undergone earth-shaking or profound changes (翻天覆地, fan tian fu di - "flip, heaven; overturn, earth") of historic magnitude. History and practice have fully proved that this path is completely correct.
Deeply understand that the formation and development of the community of the Chinese nation is what the people desire, the general trend, and a historical necessity
The view of history is an important component of ideology; whether the view of history is correct or not bears on the cohesion or dispersion of the people, the rise or fall of the state, and the prosperity or decline of the nation. What kind of view of history one holds determines what kind of ethnic cognition one forms. Only by establishing a correct view of history and deeply grasping the historical necessity of the formation and development of the Chinese nation can one break through one-sided perceptions and build historical consensus. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping has creatively proposed the major thesis of "upholding the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation," scientifically answering the major questions of where the Chinese nation came from and where it is going, and providing scientific guidance for us to correctly understand the history of the formation and development of the Chinese nation.
The proposal of the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation is a vivid model of upholding the Two Integrations, realizing the organic unity of historical materialism and the excellent traditional Chinese view of history. Historical materialism reveals the general laws of the formation, development, and evolution of nations and provides a scientific worldview and methodology for understanding ethnic history. The unbroken Chinese civilization has shaped the common identity of all ethnic groups toward a unified state, which is the unique historical foundation of the Chinese nation. The article "Forging a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation," included in Volume III, emphasizes: "Firmly establishing the correct view of the motherland, the correct view of the nation, the correct view of culture, and the correct view of history is crucial to building the common spiritual home of all ethnic groups and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation." The article "Taking the Forging of a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation as the Main Line to Promote the High-Quality Development of the Party's Ethnic Affairs Work in the New Era," included in Volume IV, clearly proposes the major concept of "the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation" and emphasizes that "we must uphold the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation and enhance the sense of identity with and pride in the Chinese nation." The article "Advancing the Building of the Community of the Chinese Nation," included in Volume V, further enriches and expands the connotations of the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation into the "five commonalities." The correct view of the history of the Chinese nation both adheres to historical materialism and acknowledges the objective laws of historical development; it also absorbs the core of the excellent traditional Chinese view of history that values the concept of a unified multi-ethnic state, ethnic integration, and harmony under heaven, realizing the deep integration of the basic principles of Marxism with China's excellent traditional culture, connecting Marxist theory with China's excellent traditional culture, and forming a localized narrative of ethnic history.
The proposal of the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation scientifically grasps the historical logic of the pluralistic unity of the Chinese nation, effectively breaks down Western fragmented ethnic narratives, and resolutely refutes the erroneous trend of thought of historical nihilism. General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out that "the history of China is a history of all ethnic groups integrating and converging into a pluralistic and unified Chinese nation, and a history of all ethnic groups jointly creating, developing, and consolidating the unified great motherland," clearly revealing the main line of the formation and development of the community of the Chinese nation. For a long time, some Western ethnic theories have adopted fragmented narratives, deliberately downplaying the mainstream of integration and coexistence among China's ethnic groups, one-sidedly isolating and opposing the histories of China's ethnic groups, and distorting the process of the formation of the unified multi-ethnic state, with the aim of dissolving national identity, tearing apart ethnic relations, and shaking the foundation of ethnic unity. The proposal of the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation is to view Chinese history from the holistic perspective of the "five commonalities" and to answer from the historical origin the fundamental questions of where the Chinese nation came from and how the community of the Chinese nation was formed. Upholding the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation, the core is to respect historical facts, clarify the mainstream and tributaries of history, distinguish the full picture of history from partial fragments, and oppose selective interpretation of history. This clarifies erroneous perceptions from the historical source, explaining that all ethnic groups are not parallel relationships isolated from each other, but a community of shared destiny that coexists and thrives together.
The proposal of the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation provides powerful spiritual strength for continuously enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation and cultural pride. Theoretical discourse cannot be simple eclecticism or the practice of adopting foreign ideas without critical selection (拿来主义, na lai zhu yi - "take, come, master,ism"); only by establishing an independent knowledge system can we tell the story of the Chinese nation well and resist external discourse penetration. Proposing the correct view of the history of the Chinese nation is a major pioneering undertaking that, based on China's historical facts, independently explains the laws of the evolution of the community of the Chinese nation. The proposal of this correct view of history has consolidated the cognitive foundation for breaking free from the shackles of Western theoretical paradigms and forming our country's independent system of historical materials, discourse system, and theoretical system on the community of the Chinese nation.
Deeply understand the theoretical connotations and practical requirements of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation
A sense of community for the Chinese nation is the foundation of ethnic unity. From the creative proposal in Volume III of the major thesis of "forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation"; to the proposal in Volume IV that "we must take the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line of the Party's ethnic affairs work in the new era"; and then to the further proposal in Volume V of "advancing the building of the community of the Chinese nation," emphasizing that "forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is the common task of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country," these works provide scientific guidance for doing the Party's ethnic affairs work well in the new era.
In forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, we must focus on grasping four pairs of relationships well. Volume IV points out that forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation requires "correctly grasping the relationship between commonality and difference," "correctly grasping the relationship between the sense of community of the Chinese nation and the sense of identity of all ethnic groups," "correctly grasping the relationship between Chinese culture and the cultures of all ethnic groups," and "correctly grasping the relationship between the material and the spiritual," so as to make the community of the Chinese nation unbreakable. These four pairs of major relationships clarify the source, dispel confusion, and are highly instructive and targeted.
Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation requires building the common spiritual home of the Chinese nation. Ethnic unity, in the final analysis, is the unity of hearts and minds. Volume III emphasizes: "Culture is the soul of a nation, and cultural identity is the root of ethnic unity." Volume IV further emphasizes that building the common spiritual home of the Chinese nation should "make the hearts of all ethnic groups converge and their spirits depend on each other, forming a powerful spiritual bond of cohesion and united struggle." We must carry out in-depth publicity and education on the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, the history of socialist development, and the history of the development of the Chinese nation, promote the national spirit with patriotism at its core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation at its core, practice the core socialist values, and establish and highlight the Chinese cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation shared by all ethnic groups; do a good job in education at all levels and of all types in ethnic regions, comprehensively strengthen education in the national common language and script, comprehensively promote the use of nationally compiled textbooks, and better promote mutual understanding between hearts; promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, strengthen patriotic education, plant the seed of loving China deep in everyone's heart, and continuously consolidate the common ideological and cultural foundation for the united struggle of people of all ethnic groups.
Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation requires promoting all ethnic groups to jointly march toward socialist modernization. Development is the master key to solving various problems in ethnic regions, but development cannot only look at economic returns; it must also take into account social benefits and achieve two-way efforts in material improvement and ideological cohesion. Volume IV points out: "We must improve differentiated regional support policies, support ethnic regions in comprehensively deepening reform and opening up, and enhance their capacity for self-development." We must base ourselves on the resource endowments of ethnic regions, promote the integration of ethnic regions into the new development pattern, develop industries with distinctive advantages, and develop new quality productive forces in light of local conditions; continue to do a good job in effectively linking the consolidation and expansion of the achievements of the battle against poverty with the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, deeply advance the action to prosper border areas and enrich the people living there, and give play to the institutional effectiveness of east-west cooperation and paired assistance; adhere to "taking the improvement of people's livelihoods and the cohesion of people's hearts as the starting point and foothold of the economic and social development of ethnic regions" and "endowing all reform and development with the significance of manifesting a sense of community for the Chinese nation, with the significance of safeguarding unification and opposing separatism, and with the significance of improving people's livelihoods and cohesion of people's hearts," calculating both the economic account and the political account, so that the fruits of reform and development fairly benefit people of all ethnic groups and consolidate the material foundation for the building of the community of the Chinese nation.
Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation requires promoting extensive exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups. Exchanges, interactions, and integration are not simple physical aggregation, but proceed from the surface to the interior, from coexistence in space to psychological identification, eliminating estrangement, enhancing emotion, and realizing deep embedding among all ethnic groups. Volume V profoundly points out: "Extensive exchanges, interactions, and integration are an important path for advancing the building of the community of the Chinese nation." Volume IV requires: "Coordinate the planning of urban and rural construction layout and the allocation of public service resources, improve policy measures, create an environment and atmosphere, and gradually realize the all-round embedding of all ethnic groups in space, culture, economy, society, and psychology." We must deeply implement the exchange program for young people of all ethnic groups, the plan for the mutually embedded development of people of all ethnic groups, and the plan for tourism to promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, deepen the creation of ethnic unity and progress, enrich carriers, deepen connotations, and innovate forms, and promote the extension of creation work to government organs, enterprises, communities, townships, schools, companies, and venues for religious activities. Through all-round interaction and integration, we should truly promote all ethnic groups to hold together tightly like pomegranate seeds.
Deeply understand that adhering to law-based governance of ethnic affairs is an important guarantee for strengthening ethnic unity
When the rule of law prospers, the nation prospers; when the rule of law is strong, the state is strong. The practical manifestation of comprehensive law-based governance in the ethnic field is adhering to law-based governance of ethnic affairs. Volume IV emphasizes: "We must adhere to law-based governance of ethnic affairs and advance the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity for ethnic affairs." To deeply understand this major thesis, we must use legal thinking and legal methods to regulate ethnic relations and handle issues in the ethnic field, run the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation through all links of ethnic legislation, law popularization, law enforcement, and law abidance, promote the Chinese nation becoming a community of shared destiny with higher recognition and stronger cohesion, and provide a solid legal guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Improve the system of ethnic policies and laws and regulations, and use law to guarantee ethnic unity. Volume III emphasizes: "Ensure that citizens of all ethnic groups are equal before the law" and "legally safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic groups." Formulating and implementing the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is a major political task and legislative task deployed by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and is a major landmark achievement in legislation in the ethnic field. As a basic law for implementing the relevant provisions of the Constitution, handling ethnic affairs, and carrying out ethnic work in the new era, this law provides a clear legal basis for law-based governance of ethnic affairs. This law transforms the major concept of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation into the will of the state, elevates the mature practices of ethnic unity and progress in the new era into a legal system, and officially opens a new stage of advancing the building of the community of the Chinese nation on the track of the rule of law. Elevating the concept of community into law means that forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is no longer merely a work requirement, but has become a legal responsibility to be jointly observed by the whole society. Based on the direction of enhancing commonality, this law coordinates key tasks such as building a common spiritual home, promoting exchanges, interactions, and integration, and promoting common prosperity and development, defines the boundaries of responsibility of the government, society, and citizens in the cause of ethnic unity and progress, and realizes the unity of advocacy and incentives with rigid constraints. We must do a good job in studying, publicizing, implementing, and enforcing the law, incorporate the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress into the entire process of national education, cadre education, and social education, promote the transformation of legal provisions into conscious actions of the whole society, continuously enhance the national consciousness, citizen consciousness, and legal consciousness of people of all ethnic groups, guide people of all ethnic groups to establish the concept of handling affairs according to law, seeking solutions through law when encountering problems, using law to solve problems, and relying on law to resolve conflicts, and comprehensively bring ethnic affairs onto the track of the rule of law.
Adhere to using legal means to prevent and resolve major risks and hidden dangers in the ethnic field. Volume IV emphasizes: "We must resolutely prevent major risks and hidden dangers in the ethnic field. We must hold the ideological front, actively and steadily handle ideological issues involving ethnic factors, and continuously eliminate the poison of ethnic separatism and religious extremism." Risks in the ethnic field often intertwine multiple factors such as ideology and foreign interference. The rule of law is both a guarantee for safeguarding ethnic unity and a powerful weapon against separatism and infiltration. We must use law as the yardstick to educate and guide people of all ethnic groups to firmly establish the common conviction that the territory cannot be divided, the country cannot be thrown into chaos, the nation cannot be dispersed, and civilization cannot be broken, and consciously safeguard national unification, national security, and social stability. We must tell the story of the community of the Chinese nation well, explain clearly the obvious superiority of the correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics, legally counter external forces' interference and smearing through ethnic issues, firmly grasp the initiative in ideological struggle, and ensure national political security and regime security.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We have relied on the united struggle of the people of all ethnic groups across the country to create great achievements that will be recorded in the annals, and we must also rely on the united struggle of the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continue writing new glory." On July 1 this year, the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress was officially implemented, which is of milestone significance in the field of ethnic rule of law in our country. We must continue to study and deeply understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thinking on strengthening and improving ethnic affairs work, unswervingly follow the correct path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics, adhere to taking the forging of a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line, advance the building of the community of the Chinese nation, and gather mighty strength for promoting Chinese modernization through the great unity of the Chinese nation.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China)
Return to TopBy: 袁振龙 李江棋
Through its long-term struggle, the Communist Party of China has forged such fine qualities as unswervingly pursuing truth and always keeping the correct direction of advance, taking deep root among the people and always possessing a solid foundation, courageously shouldering historical missions and always grasping strategic initiative, following the trend of development and always staying at the forefront of the times, daring to be good at struggle and always maintaining confidence in victory, and paying attention to strengthening itself and always being full of vitality. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in his "Explanation on the 'Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Continuously Advancing the Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party'": "Continuously carry forward the Party's fine qualities." The Party's fine qualities are rooted in the deep soil of fine traditional Chinese culture and are an organic combination of Marxist party-building theory and fine traditional Chinese culture. Grasping the inheritance and transformation of fine traditional Chinese culture embodied in the Party's fine qualities enables a deeper understanding of the key code of why the Communist Party of China can succeed, thereby better carrying forward the Party's fine qualities.
Continue the spiritual pursuit of attaining knowledge through the investigation of things (格物致知, ge wu zhi zhi - "examine things, reach knowledge") and enhance theoretical consciousness. The Book of Rites puts forward that "the extension of knowledge lies in the investigation of things," and the Analects puts forward that "a scholar aspires to the Way." Fine traditional Chinese culture links the pursuit of the Way, the understanding of principle, self-cultivation, and the governance of the world into one continuum. "Unswervingly pursuing truth and always keeping the correct direction of advance" continues the Chinese nation's spiritual pursuit of attaining knowledge through the investigation of things and, under the guidance of the Marxist view of truth, is elevated into a high degree of theoretical consciousness. Our Party adheres to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, and being pragmatic and realistic, revealing and applying truth in practice, and testing and developing truth through practice. This high degree of theoretical consciousness enables the Party to always stand at the forefront of the times, grasp the laws of the times, and continuously open up the road to victory with a strong historical initiative. In the new era, from high-quality development anchoring the course for transforming the development model and consolidating the foundation of modernization, to the new development pattern clarifying the strategic path for coordinating development and security and shaping international competitive advantages, all this demonstrates our Party's unswerving pursuit of truth and also shows the scientific guidance of theoretical innovation for the direction of practice. This fine quality of the Party places the starting point and the ultimate goal of pursuing truth in China's concrete reality and in solving problems in development, realizing the modern transformation of the spiritual pursuit of attaining knowledge through the investigation of things.
Activate the cultural gene of "the people are the foundation of the state" and deepen the people-centered sentiment. "The people are the foundation of the state; when the foundation is solid, the state is at peace" and "the rise of governance lies in following the people's hearts; the fall of governance lies in going against the people's hearts" — the people-oriented thought of fine traditional Chinese culture has a long and continuous history and rich connotations. "Taking deep root among the people and always possessing a solid foundation" draws nourishment from the profound tradition of the people being the foundation of the state and achieves a fundamental leap under the guidance of historical materialism. The people's standpoint is the fundamental political standpoint of the Communist Party of China. Our Party takes serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose, always facing trials and tribulations together (风雨同舟, feng yu tong zhou - "wind, rain, same, boat") with the people and being in complete accord or mutual understanding (心心相印, xin xin xiang yin - "heart, heart, mutually, print") with the people, and therefore always enjoys the heartfelt support of the masses and becomes the people's most reliable backbone. This fine quality of the Party develops the governance wisdom of "the people are the foundation of the state; when the foundation is solid, the state is at peace" into an important logic of taking root among the people, relying on the people, and being tested by the people, elevates the cultural gene of valuing the people and following the people's hearts into the value origin of putting the people first, and implements it as a people-centered development practice.
Inherit the innovative spirit of adapting to changing circumstances and shoulder historical responsibility. "Courageously shouldering historical missions and always grasping strategic initiative" and "following the trend of development and always staying at the forefront of the times" both embody our Party's spirit and quality of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Precisely because it upholds fundamental principles and breaks new ground, the Party can actively recognize, respond to, and seek change, leading the country and the nation to advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the trend of the times, shouldering the heavy responsibilities entrusted by history and the people. Chinese civilization contains the wisdom of "observing the patterns of heaven to examine the changes of the times." "The way of all benefit is to advance together with the times" and "those who adapt to change are those who follow the times" — this dialectical thinking of advancing with the times and adapting to changing circumstances provides our Party with methodological confidence for bold innovation. Fine traditional Chinese culture emphasizes the innovative spirit of "if one can be new day after day, let it be new day after day, and again new day after day." The Communist Party of China inherits this civilizational gene of adapting to changing circumstances, actively promotes theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation, always responds to the "times" with "change," and maintains the vitality of its body in upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground.
Carry forward the exemplary character of constantly striving for self-improvement (自强不息, zi qiang bu xi - "self, strengthen, not, cease") and temper the spirit of struggle. "Daring to be good at struggle and always maintaining confidence in victory" inherits the spiritual lineage of tenacity and courage from fine traditional Chinese culture, and the Party has forged it over more than a century of struggle into the strategic capability of opening up new prospects for the development of the cause through struggle. The Chinese nation has the cultural gene of being unyielding in the face of setbacks (百折不挠, bai zhe bu nao - "hundred, bend, not, yield") and braving difficulties. From the perseverance of "as heaven maintains vigor through movements, a gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement," to the courageous spirit of "a scholar cannot but be broad-minded and resolute, for carrying a heavy responsibility on a long journey (任重而道远, ren zhong er dao yuan - "responsibility, heavy, and, path, far")," and then to the persistent adherence of "knowing it cannot be done yet doing it anyway" and the fearless bearing of "even if thousands of people oppose me, I will go," these cultural traditions together nourish the distinctive character of Communists to dare to be good at struggle. Daring to be good at struggle realizes the organic connection and deep integration of the Marxist critical spirit and revolutionary character with the spirit of the Chinese nation, injecting inexhaustible spiritual impetus for us to overcome all risks and challenges on the road ahead.
Abide by the tradition of self-reflection of rectifying the mind and cultivating oneself, and continuously realize the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement. "Paying attention to strengthening itself and always being full of vitality" — this fine quality of the Party has both the deep nourishment of fine traditional Chinese culture and completes creative transformation and innovative development in the practice of Marxist party building. The cultural genes of the self-reflection tradition of rectifying the mind and cultivating oneself and the sense of urgency of being prepared for danger during times of peace (居安思危, ju an si wei - "dwell, peace, think, danger") combine with the requirements of the revolutionary nature of Marxist political parties, forming a systematic mechanism of turning the blade inward for self-correction (刀刃向内, dao ren xiang nei - "blade, towards, inside"), correcting errors, and forever maintaining advanced nature and purity, enabling our Party to always walk at the forefront of the times with the bearing of youth. The Communist Party of China inherits the self-cultivation consciousness of inward self-examination and cautious solitude of "after self-cultivation comes the regulation of the family; after the regulation of the family comes the governance of the state," and breaks through the limitations of traditional self-cultivation, governing the Party strictly with the spirit of continuously realizing the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement, providing a solid guarantee for the Party's long-term governance.
(The authors are both specially appointed researchers of the Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
Return to TopFirm political loyalty provides solid ideological support for leading cadres in shouldering the responsibility of governing the Party and managing Party affairs.
Political loyalty tempers firm conviction and impels leading cadres to internalize the requirements of the responsibility for governing the Party and managing Party affairs as conscious self-cultivation and an eternal mission. Political loyalty is an intrinsic moral standard and value pursuit, embodying the steadfast will of Communists to uphold ideals and convictions and forever preserve their political character. The firmer one's political loyalty, the more leading cadres will regard doing Party building well as their due duty, temper their Party spirit in fulfilling responsibilities and performing duties, neither changing their standards because of personal advancement or retreat, nor wavering in their resolve because of increasing difficulties, nor slackening their momentum because of achievements already won.
Political loyalty nurtures profound feelings and inspires leading cadres to internalize the assumption of responsibility for governing the Party and managing Party affairs as a sincere heart and a loyal, courageous character. Political loyalty centrally embodies political, ideological, and emotional identification with the Party, and condenses the political consciousness of working together with one heart and one mind (同心同德, tong xin tong de - "same, heart, same, virtue") with the Party and sharing weal and woe with others (休戚与共, xiu qi yu gong - "sorrow, joy, and, together") with the people. The deeper and more sincere the feelings of leading cadres for the Party and the people, the more they will place the Party's safety and rise or fall above personal honor, disgrace, advancement, or retreat, upholding great righteousness and discarding selfish thoughts in the choices between public and private interests, and maintaining sincerity and courage and refusing deceit and falsehood in defending truth. Only by nurturing public-mindedness and great righteousness with profound feelings can one cast off the shackles of selfish thoughts and distracting ideas, and manifest a loyal, courageous character in adhering to principles and confronting problems head-on.
Political loyalty strengthens profound identification and guides leading cadres to implement the assumption of responsibility for governing the Party and managing Party affairs in the cultivation of virtue and the struggle of the cause. Political loyalty is a proactive behavioral choice, manifesting the conscious action of Communists in abiding by political commitments and devoting themselves to the Party's cause. From the pledge "never betray the Party" in the oath of admission to the Party, to the requirement in the Party Constitution to be "loyal and honest to the Party, consistent in word and deed," the eternal loyalty oath and serious disciplinary requirements of Communists have always been closely linked to the glorious duty of striving for the Party and the people. Political loyalty impels leading cadres to unify strict self-discipline with strict management of those under their jurisdiction, safeguarding the Party's advanced nature and purity in observing the Party Constitution, Party rules, and Party discipline, and pooling the strength for advancing Party building in performing duties and fulfilling responsibilities.
— Excerpted from Guangming Daily, October 20, 2026, author: Chen Yiping, original title: "Resolutely Shouldering the Responsibility for Governing the Party and Managing Party Affairs with Political Loyalty"
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November 10
Official opening of the slopes
November 14
The specific date is subject to weather conditions
Please watch the resort's official WeChat public account for notices
From smooth gliding to fun sliding
Fourteen extra-wide ski runs will be opened, suited to beginner, intermediate, and family groups. They will open in batches starting November 10, with full opening in early December; a new fun terrain park will be added, featuring checkpoint challenges. The third floor of the ski hall has been refreshed, introducing international high-end ski equipment brands such as Salomon and Atomic. The self-developed ski teaching system has been comprehensively upgraded.
From daytime to nighttime
The Huamei Mountain-Sea Fantasy Night will go live in December, encompassing nighttime experience programs including trend music parties, float parades, intangible cultural heritage molten iron flower displays, flying wire aerial performances, and themed parade character interactions. The Big Big Big World Happiness Resort Assistant Space Club will be refreshed in tandem with the nighttime activities.
From ice and snow to forest hot springs
The new Lingshe Danzi Changbai Mountain volcanic hot spring will be added, channeling natural hot spring water into the pools to create a forest-secluded wellness private bath. Specialty programs including powered paragliding, deep-snow hiking, and rime-ice rafting will be launched simultaneously. Pre-sales have begun for five hotels — Changbai Mountain Hao Like Hotel, Changbai Mountain Songguoli Resort Club, Changbai Mountain Yuanxiang Folk Hotel, Changbai Mountain Swiss Hotel Resort, and Wang·Changbai MGallery Collection Hotel — with a single room card unlocking rights to skiing, snow play, hot springs, and more.
From playing in the snow to all-around enjoyment across the region
Programs within the snow play park will open in phases starting in early December, with dozens of colorful attractions making their debut, including joyful snow play, cute pet interactions, wild off-road vehicles, and super snow tubes. A new warm winter rest stop zone will also make its debut, with container warm-house markets and deep-snow camping, adding even more festive warmth to the ice and snow.
Changbai Mountain Huamei Resort actively practices the concept that "ice and snow are also mountains of gold and silver," integrates itself into the broader effort of Jilin Province to build itself into a strong ice-and-snow tourism province, promotes the development of the entire ice-and-snow industry chain with high-quality products, and contributes to the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era.
Data source: Changbai Mountain Huamei Resort
Return to TopOrder of the President of the People's Republic of China
No. 86
The "Public Interest Litigation Law of the People's Republic of China for Procuratorial Organs" was adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on November 6, 2026, and is hereby promulgated, effective as of January 1, 2027.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
November 6, 2026
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Jurisdiction
Chapter III Case Filing and Investigation, Filing of Lawsuits
Section 1 Case Filing and Investigation
Section 2 Filing Administrative Public Interest Lawsuits
Section 3 Filing Civil Public Interest Lawsuits
Chapter IV Adjudication
Chapter V Execution
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purposes of protecting national interests and the public interest, regulating and safeguarding public interest litigation activities of procuratorial organs, and protecting the lawful rights and interests of litigation participants.
Article 2 This Law applies to the handling of public interest litigation cases by the People's Procuratorates and the trial of public interest litigation cases filed by the People's Procuratorates by the People's Courts; where this Law has no provisions, the relevant provisions of the "Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China," and other laws shall apply.
Article 3 Where an administrative organ with supervisory and administrative duties in the following fields exercises its powers in violation of the law or fails to exercise its powers, thereby causing harm to national interests or the public interest, the People's Procuratorate shall file an administrative public interest lawsuit in accordance with this Law and the provisions of relevant laws:
(1) Ecological environment and resource protection;
(2) Food and drug safety;
(3) Protection of state-owned property and transfer of the right to use state-owned land;
(4) Work safety;
(5) Protection of the rights and interests of specific groups prescribed by law, including minors, women, the elderly, and persons with disabilities;
(6) Protection of national defense interests and protection of the rights and interests of military personnel;
(7) Construction of a barrier-free environment;
(8) Countering telecommunications and internet fraud;
(9) Protection of cultural heritage;
(10) Promoting ethnic unity and progress.
Where any of the following acts occurs, harming national interests or the public interest, the People's Procuratorate shall file a civil public interest lawsuit in accordance with this Law and the provisions of relevant laws:
(1) Acts committed by natural persons, legal persons, or unincorporated organizations in the fields listed in items (1), (2), and (4) through (10) of the preceding paragraph that harm national interests or the public interest;
(2) Monopolistic acts committed by business operators;
(3) Acts by employers and others that infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of numerous workers;
(4) Acts by personal information processors who process personal information in violation of the provisions of laws, infringing upon the lawful rights and interests of numerous individuals;
(5) Acts by natural persons, legal persons, or unincorporated organizations that infringe upon the names, portraits, reputations, or honors of heroes and martyrs.
Article 4 Public interest litigation work of procuratorial organs shall adhere to objectivity and fairness, openness in accordance with the law, protection as a priority, and collaborative governance, so as to protect national interests and the public interest in a timely and effective manner.
Article 5 When handling public interest litigation cases, the People's Procuratorates shall comply with statutory procedures, adhere to the principles of necessity and prudence, shall not interfere with or replace administrative organs in lawfully performing their duties, shall not infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of natural persons, legal persons, or unincorporated organizations, and shall not restrict or impede natural persons, legal persons, or unincorporated organizations from lawfully exercising their rights.
Article 6 The People's Congresses at or above the county level and their Standing Committees shall supervise the public interest litigation work of the People's Procuratorates and the People's Courts at the corresponding level.
When handling public interest litigation cases, the People's Procuratorates and the People's Courts shall accept supervision by the people and ensure that the people enjoy the right to know, the right to participate, and the right to supervise in accordance with the law.
Units and individuals are encouraged to participate in the protection of national interests and the public interest and to supervise the handling of public interest litigation cases in accordance with the law.
Article 7 Where, in the course of handling public interest litigation cases, the People's Procuratorates and the People's Courts discover leads or clues concerning public officials suspected of duty-related violations or duty-related crimes, they shall transfer such matters to the supervisory organs in accordance with the law, and the supervisory organs shall investigate and dispose of them in accordance with the law.
Chapter II Jurisdiction
Article 8 Administrative public interest litigation cases shall be handled by the People's Procuratorate at the location of the administrative organ.
Article 9 The primary People's Court at the location of the administrative organ being sued shall have jurisdiction over first-instance administrative public interest litigation cases filed by the People's Procuratorate, unless otherwise provided by law.
Article 10 Civil public interest litigation cases shall be handled by the People's Procuratorate at the place where the infringing act occurred or at the domicile of the actor.
Article 11 The primary People's Court at the place where the infringing act occurred or at the domicile of the defendant shall have jurisdiction over first-instance civil public interest litigation cases filed by the People's Procuratorate, unless otherwise provided by law or unless the Supreme People's Court determines in accordance with the law that an intermediate People's Court shall have jurisdiction.
Article 12 Where the People's Procuratorate needs to file a lawsuit, it shall transfer the case to the People's Procuratorate at the same level corresponding to the People's Court that has jurisdiction.
Chapter III Case Filing and Investigation, Filing of Lawsuits
Section 1 Case Filing and Investigation
Article 13 Where, in the course of performing its duties, the People's Procuratorate discovers that an administrative organ with supervisory and administrative duties in the fields prescribed in Paragraph 1 of Article 3 of this Law has exercised its powers in violation of the law or failed to exercise its powers, thereby causing harm to national interests or the public interest, it shall file a case for investigation.
Article 14 Where, in the course of performing its duties, the People's Procuratorate discovers that a natural person, legal person, or unincorporated organization has committed an illegal act prescribed in Paragraph 2 of Article 3 of this Law, harming national interests or the public interest, it shall file a case for investigation.
Where the national interests or the public interest harmed by the act prescribed in the preceding paragraph can be effectively protected by urging the administrative organ to lawfully perform its duties, the People's Procuratorate shall not file a case for investigation as a civil public interest lawsuit.
Article 15 Units and individuals may, in accordance with the law, provide the People's Procuratorate with leads or clues concerning harm to national interests or the public interest as prescribed in Article 3 of this Law, and the People's Procuratorate shall handle them promptly in accordance with the law.
Article 16 When handling public interest litigation cases, the People's Procuratorate has the authority to investigate and collect evidence.
When investigating and collecting evidence, the People's Procuratorate shall do so in accordance with the law, objectively, and comprehensively.
Article 17 When handling public interest litigation cases, the People's Procuratorate may adopt necessary methods such as inquiry, inspection, examination, appraisal, and consulting, duplicating, and requisitioning relevant documents and materials to collect evidence, but shall not adopt compulsory measures such as restricting personal freedom or sealing, seizing, or freezing property.
The People's Procuratorate and its staff members shall, in accordance with the law, bear an obligation of confidentiality with respect to state secrets, work secrets, trade secrets, personal privacy, and personal information learned of during the investigation process.
Article 18 When investigating and collecting evidence, the People's Procuratorate shall have the investigation conducted by prosecutors and assistant prosecutors and clerks, in a number of no fewer than two persons, of whom at least one shall be a prosecutor; when investigating and collecting evidence from relevant units and individuals, it shall present the certification documents and work credentials of the People's Procuratorate.
Article 19 When the People's Procuratorate investigates and collects evidence, the relevant units and individuals shall cooperate and assist, and shall not refuse or obstruct.
Where the unit or individual under investigation obstructs the investigation by means of violence, threats, gathering a crowd to besiege, or other means, constituting an act violating public security administration, a public security administration penalty shall be imposed in accordance with the law; where the act constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.
Where an administrative organ or its staff members refuse to perform the obligation of assistance, the People's Procuratorate may notify the supervisory organ or the administrative organ at the next higher level of that administrative organ.
Article 20 The People's Procuratorate may adopt methods such as hearings to hear the opinions of all parties and to learn about the relevant circumstances. Where a case is major, difficult, or complex, a hearing shall be organized.
Where an administrative organ, other organization, or individual applies for a hearing, the People's Procuratorate may organize a hearing.
Article 21 Where, after investigation, the People's Procuratorate finds that none of the circumstances prescribed in Articles 13 and 14 of this Law exists, it shall close the case in accordance with the law.
Section 2 Filing Administrative Public Interest Lawsuits
Article 22 Where, after investigation, the People's Procuratorate finds that an administrative organ has exercised its powers in violation of the law or failed to exercise its powers, thereby causing harm to national interests or the public interest, it shall issue a procuratorial recommendation for public interest litigation to the administrative organ.
The content of the procuratorial recommendation for public interest litigation shall include the reasons and basis for finding that the administrative organ exercised its powers in violation of the law or failed to exercise its powers, the facts of the harm to national interests or the public interest, the recommendation for rectification to the administrative organ, and the time limit for rectification, among other matters.
Before deciding to issue a procuratorial recommendation for public interest litigation, the People's Procuratorate shall communicate with the administrative organ regarding the content listed in the preceding paragraph.
Article 23 The administrative organ shall carry out rectification within the time limit for rectification proposed in the procuratorial recommendation for public interest litigation and shall reply to the People's Procuratorate in writing. Where emergency circumstances such as the continued expansion of harm to national interests or the public interest arise, the administrative organ shall carry out rectification promptly and reply to the People's Procuratorate in writing within fifteen days.
Where the administrative organ considers that it has not exercised its powers in violation of the law or failed to exercise its powers, it shall reply to the People's Procuratorate in writing within fifteen days from the date of receipt of the procuratorial recommendation for public interest litigation.
Article 24 Under any of the following circumstances, the administrative organ may, ten days before the expiration of the time limit for rectification, apply to the People's Procuratorate for an extension of the time limit for rectification and state the reasons:
(1) The administrative organ has initiated the rectification procedure but has not yet completed performance due to objective reasons;
(2) The issue of application of law involved in the public interest litigation case requires an interpretation or confirmation by the competent authority;
(3) Other circumstances in which an extension of the time limit for rectification is needed for reasons not attributable to the administrative organ itself.
After receiving the application, the People's Procuratorate shall review it within seven days and issue a written opinion. Where it decides to extend the time limit for rectification, it shall specify the extended time limit for rectification.
The period of review by the People's Procuratorate shall not be counted toward the time limit for rectification of the administrative organ.
Article 25 The People's Procuratorate shall, within three months from the date of expiration of the time limit for rectification, or within thirty days from the date of receipt of the written reply submitted by the administrative organ pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 23 of this Law, review whether the circumstances prescribed in Article 13 of this Law still exist with respect to the administrative organ. Where the case is major, difficult, or complex, upon reporting to and obtaining approval from the People's Procuratorate at the next higher level, the period may be extended by three months.
Where, after review, the People's Procuratorate finds that the circumstances prescribed in Article 13 of this Law still exist with respect to the administrative organ, it shall file an administrative public interest lawsuit within thirty days after the completion of the review.
Article 26 Under any of the following circumstances, the People's Procuratorate shall make a decision to close the case:
(1) After review, it is found that none of the circumstances prescribed in Article 13 of this Law exists;
(2) The administrative organ has adopted rectification measures and lawfully performed its duties;
(3) Other circumstances under which the case should be closed.
After making the decision to close the case, the People's Procuratorate shall inform the relevant administrative organ in accordance with the law.
Section 3 Filing Civil Public Interest Lawsuits
Article 27 Where, after investigation, the People's Procuratorate finds that a natural person, legal person, or unincorporated organization has committed an illegal act, harming national interests or the public interest, it shall file a civil public interest lawsuit in accordance with the law within one year from the date of filing the case. Where the case is major, difficult, or complex, upon reporting to and obtaining approval from the People's Procuratorate at the next higher level, the period may be extended by three months.
With respect to the illegal act prescribed in the preceding paragraph, where the law provides that other organs and relevant organizations may file a civil public interest lawsuit, and the relevant organs and organizations do not file a lawsuit, or the relevant organs do not initiate the procedure for compensation for ecological and environmental damage, the People's Procuratorate shall file a civil public interest lawsuit in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Article 28 Where the law provides that other organs and relevant organizations may file a civil public interest lawsuit, the People's Procuratorate shall, before filing a civil public interest lawsuit, make a public announcement in accordance with the law, or adopt other methods to urge and inform the other organs and relevant organizations prescribed by law to file a lawsuit. Where a public announcement is made in accordance with the law, the announcement period shall be thirty days. Where the other organs and relevant organizations prescribed by law file a civil public interest lawsuit, the People's Procuratorate may support the filing of the lawsuit.
Article 29 When handling civil public interest litigation cases involving infringement upon the names, portraits, reputations, or honors of heroes and martyrs, the People's Procuratorate shall seek the opinions of the close relatives of the heroes and martyrs. Where the close relatives of the heroes and martyrs file a lawsuit, the People's Procuratorate may support the filing of the lawsuit. Where the heroes and martyrs have no close relatives or the close relatives do not file a lawsuit, the People's Procuratorate may file a lawsuit with the People's Court in accordance with the law.
Article 30 Under any of the following circumstances, the People's Procuratorate shall make a decision to close the case:
(1) The other organs prescribed by law have reached a compensation agreement through consultation with the party liable for compensation, or have already filed a lawsuit for compensation for ecological and environmental damage;
(2) The other organs and relevant organizations prescribed by law have filed a civil public interest lawsuit with the People's Court in accordance with the law;
(3) The national interests and the public interest that were harmed have already been protected;
(4) Other circumstances under which the case should be closed.
After making the decision to close the case, the People's Procuratorate shall inform the relevant administrative organ in accordance with the law.
Chapter IV Adjudication
Article 31 The People's Court shall accept public interest lawsuits filed by the People's Procuratorate in accordance with the law.
Article 32 Where the People's Procuratorate files an administrative public interest lawsuit, it may, according to the different circumstances of the illegal acts of the administrative organ, submit to the People's Court claims such as an order to lawfully perform statutory duties, confirmation that the administrative act is illegal or void, or revocation or partial revocation of the illegal administrative act.
Where the People's Procuratorate files a civil public interest lawsuit, it may submit to the People's Court claims such as cessation of infringement, removal of obstruction, elimination of danger, restoration to the original state, and compensation for losses.
Article 33 When trying public interest litigation cases, the People's Court shall form a collegial panel for trial in accordance with the law.
Article 34 Where the People's Court holds a court session to try a public interest litigation case filed by the People's Procuratorate, it shall serve a notice of appearance in court on the People's Procuratorate three days before the court session. The People's Procuratorate shall submit to the People's Court a notice of dispatch of personnel to appear in court within three days from the date of receipt of the notice of appearance in court.
Article 35 Documentary evidence, physical evidence, audio-visual materials, electronic data, witness testimony, statements of the parties, expert opinions, and records of inspection collected by the People's Procuratorate through investigation in accordance with the law may be used as evidence in accordance with the law.
Article 36 In the course of administrative public interest litigation, the People's Procuratorate bears the burden of proof with respect to the facts that the administrative organ exercised its powers in violation of the law or failed to exercise its powers, thereby causing harm to national interests or the public interest. The administrative organ may provide evidence proving that it has not exercised its powers in violation of the law or failed to exercise its powers.
In the course of civil public interest litigation, the People's Procuratorate bears the burden of proof with respect to the facts that a natural person, legal person, or unincorporated organization committed an illegal act, harming national interests or the public interest. The defendant may provide evidence proving that it bears no liability or that its liability should be reduced.
Article 37 In the course of civil public interest litigation, where the defendant considers that evidence materials favorable to it collected by the People's Procuratorate during the investigation period have not been submitted, it has the right to apply to the People's Court for their retrieval.
Article 38 When trying civil public interest litigation cases, the People's Court may conduct mediation on the basis of clear facts. Mediation shall follow the principles of legality and voluntariness, shall not harm national interests, the public interest, or the lawful rights and interests of others, and shall not violate the provisions of laws.
Where a mediation agreement is reached, the People's Court shall make a public announcement of the content of the agreement. The announcement period shall be no less than thirty days. Upon expiration of the announcement period, where the People's Court, upon review, finds that the content of the mediation agreement does not harm national interests, the public interest, or the lawful rights and interests of others, it shall issue a mediation document.
Article 39 In the course of trial of a public interest litigation case, where the defendant has already corrected the illegal act or performed its statutory duties, and all of the claims of the People's Procuratorate have been realized, the People's Procuratorate may apply to withdraw the lawsuit; in the course of administrative public interest litigation, where truly necessary, the People's Procuratorate may request confirmation that the original administrative act was illegal.
Article 40 Where a defendant is dissatisfied with a first-instance judgment or ruling of the People's Court, it has the right to file an appeal with the People's Court at the next higher level within the statutory time limit.
Article 41 Where the People's Procuratorate considers that a first-instance judgment of the People's Court is indeed erroneous, it shall file a protest with the People's Court at the next higher level within fifteen days from the date of service of the judgment; where it considers that a first-instance ruling of the People's Court is indeed erroneous, it shall file a protest with the People's Court at the next higher level within ten days from the date of service of the ruling.
A protest by a local People's Procuratorate at any level against a first-instance judgment or ruling of the People's Court at the corresponding level shall be filed by submitting a written protest through the original trial People's Court, with a copy of the written protest sent to the People's Procuratorate at the next higher level.
Where the People's Procuratorate at the next higher level considers the protest to be improper, it may withdraw the protest with the People's Court at the corresponding level and notify the People's Procuratorate that filed the protest.
Article 42 Where the defendant fails to file an appeal within the time limit and the People's Procuratorate fails to file a protest within the time limit, the first-instance judgment or ruling of the People's Court shall become legally effective.
Article 43 When trying appeal and protest cases in public interest litigation, the People's Court of second instance shall conduct a comprehensive review of the facts found and the law applied in the judgment or ruling of the original trial People's Court, without being limited by the scope of the appeal or protest.
Article 44 The People's Court of second instance shall hold a court session to try appeal and protest cases in public interest litigation.
Where the People's Court holds a court session in accordance with the law to try appeal and protest cases in public interest litigation, the People's Procuratorate at the corresponding level shall dispatch personnel to appear in court.
Article 45 When trying appeal and protest cases in public interest litigation, the People's Court of second instance shall, except where this Law has special provisions, apply the relevant provisions of the "Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" concerning second-instance procedures.
Chapter V Execution
Article 46 The parties must perform judgments, rulings, and mediation documents that have become legally effective. Where a party refuses to perform, the People's Procuratorate shall apply to the People's Court for execution, or the People's Court may transfer the case for execution.
Article 47 Where an administrative organ refuses to perform a judgment, ruling, or mediation document that has become legally effective, the People's Court may adopt measures in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China." The People's Procuratorate may notify the administrative organ at the next higher level of that administrative organ.
Article 48 In the course of execution of civil public interest litigation cases, the People's Procuratorate and the person subject to execution may consult on the method of bearing civil liability. Where a settlement agreement is reached, the People's Court shall make a public announcement of the content of the agreement. The announcement period shall be no less than thirty days.
Upon expiration of the announcement period, where the People's Court, upon review, finds that the content of the settlement agreement does not harm national interests, the public interest, or the lawful rights and interests of others, the person subject to execution shall perform in accordance with the settlement agreement. Where the person subject to execution fails to perform the settlement agreement, the People's Court shall, upon the application of the People's Procuratorate, resume execution of the original legally effective legal instrument.
Article 49 Where the person subject to execution refuses to perform or is dilatory in performing within the performance period determined by the judgment, ruling, or mediation document that has become legally effective in a civil public interest litigation case, the People's Court may entrust a third party with professional qualifications or other such institution to perform on its behalf, with the relevant costs borne by the person subject to execution.
Article 50 Where the person subject to execution refuses to perform civil liabilities such as eliminating the impact, restoring reputation, and making a formal apology, the People's Court may adopt methods such as publishing an announcement in media such as newspapers and the internet or publishing the legally effective legal instrument for execution, and the costs incurred shall be borne by the person subject to execution.
Article 51 Where the person subject to execution or an interested party considers that an execution act violates the provisions of laws, it may submit a written objection to the People's Court. Where the People's Procuratorate considers that an execution act violates the provisions of laws, it may submit a written opinion to the People's Court.
In the course of execution, where a person other than a party to the case submits a written objection to the subject matter of execution, the People's Court shall review and handle it in accordance with the law. Where the person other than a party to the case is dissatisfied with the result of the handling and files a lawsuit in accordance with the law, the People's Court shall notify the People's Procuratorate that filed the civil public interest lawsuit to participate.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 52 With respect to illegal acts committed by foreign organizations and individuals that harm the national interests or the public interest of our country, the People's Procuratorate may file a public interest lawsuit in accordance with the law.
Article 53 This Law shall come into force as of January 1, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6)
Return to TopFrom October 31 to November 4, the 2026 China Aviation Industry Conference and Nanchang Aviation Industry Expo were held in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. More than 800 representatives from aviation manufacturing enterprises and research institutes gathered together in one place (齐聚, qi ju - "gather, together") in Nanchang. The 30,000-square-meter exhibition area, more than 300 exhibiting enterprises, 3,200 items (sets) of exhibits, 25 concurrent events, and 40,000 visits all set new historical records. The Large Aircraft Derivative Technology Innovation Center was unveiled and settled there, and a number of aviation industry projects reached cooperation intentions.
The conference and the expo were planned as an integrated whole, empowering each other in both directions. Centered on industrial exchange and using the expo as the vehicle, they opened up channels for the flow of information among airframe manufacturers, supporting enterprises, research institutes, and investment and financing institutions, fully releasing the value of the national-level industrial exchange platform.
The expo set up three themed pavilions — aviation manufacturing, commercial space, and the low-altitude economy — and ten exhibition zones fully displayed the development achievements of the entire aerospace industry chain. The aviation manufacturing pavilion exhibited domestic passenger aircraft and aviation power products; Jiangxi Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Co., Ltd. and Jiangxi Helicopter Co., Ltd. brought a variety of aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. The commercial space exhibition zone displayed cutting-edge equipment such as liquid oxygen-methane engines and micro-nano satellite constellations. The low-altitude economy pavilion exhibited manned eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) and logistics drones, presenting application scenarios such as low-altitude travel and emergency rescue in real scenes. Quite a few local enterprises from Nanchang High-tech Zone connected with merchants and expanded their markets here.
The forum discussions focused on the future of the industry, with dedicated sessions on aviation manufacturing, commercial space, the low-altitude economy, and financial empowerment. Academicians, experts, entrepreneurs, and university scholars engaged in practical exchanges on topics such as extending, strengthening, and reinforcing the industrial chain, tackling key technical problems, and empowering through capital. The "Ganchu Chengguo, Changhang Chuangyi" (Jiangxi Produces Results, Nanchang Aviation Creates Wings) Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Base Development Forum directly confronted the bottlenecks in the landing of scientific research achievements, and the Aviation Digital Talent Cultivation and 18th Blue Bridge Cup Competition Jiangxi Division Seminar explored new models of integrating competition and education, promoting deep integration of government, industry, academia, and research.
The conference simultaneously released multiple achievements: the "Nanchang Aviation Industry Patent Navigation Report" was issued, and the "Hongcheng Eagle Eye" low-altitude integrated service platform was officially launched for the first time, realizing unified network management of low-altitude flights. Three industrial chain supply-demand matchmaking meetings on aviation manufacturing, commercial space, and the low-altitude economy facilitated multiple cooperation projects, turning exhibition opportunities into implemented projects.
The conference also gave consideration to science popularization for the public, with drone football performances and low-altitude flight skills training held concurrently; it created new "aviation + cultural tourism" scenarios, planting dreams of the blue sky in the hearts of young people.
The conference has concluded, but the vigorous flight continues. Nanchang Aviation City, located in the Nanchang High-tech Industrial Development Zone, brings together more than 70 aviation enterprises. Relying on the 3,600-meter ultra-long runway of Yaohu Airport and the Jiangxi Aircraft Airworthiness Certification Center, it enjoys the unique advantage of "test flights at the doorstep, airworthiness certification at the doorstep." In the next step, the Nanchang High-tech Industrial Development Zone will follow up on and implement the cooperation intentions, strengthen the "large aircraft + low-altitude economy," continuously optimize the industrial ecology, and make every effort to build a nationally important aviation industry highland.
Data source: Nanchang High-tech Industrial Development Zone
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 颜 欢 许海林
The 15th Global Smart City Expo was recently held in Barcelona, Spain. Under the theme "City Solutions, Real Impact," more than 1,200 enterprises from 140 countries and regions showcased the latest practices in global smart city construction across seven major fields: technology empowerment, energy and environment, mobility, governance and economy, living and inclusion, infrastructure and buildings, and the blue economy. Chinese enterprises participating in the expo focused on showcasing technologies and products in areas such as artificial intelligence, 5G, the Internet of Things, and green and low-carbon development.
Smart city construction enters a new stage of comprehensive development
The year 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the United Nations initiative "Building Sustainable Smart Cities." The initiative aims to promote the integration of information and communication technology with sustainable urban development, and to advance the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals concerning building inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities. How can digital technology be truly translated into urban governance effectiveness? Some cases unveiled at this expo provide more referenceable solutions.
In Botoșani County, Romania, the local government cooperated with enterprises to install more than 30,000 smart LED streetlights along 923 kilometers of roads. Unlike traditional streetlights, this lighting system can adjust the color of the light according to weather conditions, and uses artificial intelligence technology to identify road traffic flow, automatically reducing lighting brightness when there are few or no vehicles passing. Project data shows that the system reduces energy consumption per lamp by 64 percent, saving more than 570,000 euros annually. The project won the World Smart City Award in the Energy and Environment category at this expo.
The "Madrid Smart in Action" project in Madrid, Spain, integrates urban digital twin, data management, and artificial intelligence technologies to improve air quality management and the efficiency of energy and water resource utilization, winning the Governance and Economy category award. The urban renewal project in Curitiba, Brazil, which was shortlisted for the Housing category award, relocated residents facing flood and pollution risks to new communities with complete supporting facilities, and built solar-powered residential housing. These practices show that smart city construction must not only improve operational efficiency, but also take into account the accessibility of public services, urban risk response capacity, and the actual needs of different groups, enabling two-way empowerment between technological innovation and social development goals.
Participants said that from technology application to urban governance, and from infrastructure upgrading to public service improvement, smart city construction is gradually moving from the application of single technologies and equipment toward a new stage of comprehensive development that places greater emphasis on system coordination, resource optimization, and the needs of people's livelihoods, enabling infrastructure to operate dynamically according to actual demand and improving resource utilization efficiency while safeguarding public services.
"As urban digital transformation continues to deepen, the importance of data interoperability, system coordination, and governance capacity building is increasingly prominent." Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union, believes that smart city construction requires strengthening data coordination between different systems and departments, breaking down data silos, and enabling technology to better serve urban governance.
Chinese solutions contribute to global smart city construction
The China National Pavilion exhibition area, themed "Chinese Wisdom, Connecting the World Intelligently," brought together 19 enterprises. Companion robots, quadruped robots, and unmanned passenger-carrying aerial vehicles attracted visitors to experience and exchange ideas, and many European enterprises came to learn about product performance and application scenarios and to seek cooperation opportunities. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade received the Best Organization Award at this expo.
Shenzhen Sinoroad Technology Co., Ltd., an exhibitor, provided a smart pedestrian crossing system in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, tailored to local traffic needs. The system integrates sensing, alerting, and traffic signal control: when there is no pedestrian crossing demand, vehicle passage is prioritized; when pedestrians are waiting to cross, sensors automatically identify the pedestrian crossing demand, provide sound and vibration alerts for people with visual impairments, and issue audible and visual warnings to pedestrians running red lights. This design balances vehicle traffic efficiency with pedestrian safety and convenience. Luo Xiaoyue, Director of the Overseas Business Department of the company, said that smart city construction should pursue both technological advancement and operational efficiency, while also paying attention to people's actual needs.
Smart city construction cannot be separated from the support of the industrial chain behind intelligent devices. The precision electronic connectors researched, developed, and produced by the participating Dongguan Dianwei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. are used for power connection and signal transmission inside intelligent interconnected devices, and are applied in fields such as smart home appliances, industrial automation, and communication equipment. From traffic signal systems to precision electronic components, Chinese enterprises participate in global intelligent industry chain collaboration with their technology research and development and manufacturing capabilities, contributing to smart city construction.
Ugo Valenti, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Smart City Expo, said in an interview with People's Daily reporters that China has accumulated rich experience in fields such as electric vehicles, intelligent transportation, robotics, and the large-scale application of digital technologies, providing an important reference for the development of global smart cities.
Open cooperation promotes sustainable urban development
With the development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and robotics, cities need solutions that can effectively address real-world challenges and promote the transformation of innovation achievements into practical applications. Valenti said that smart city construction is shifting from an early focus more on technology itself toward a greater focus on whether residents' lives have improved, whether living costs are affordable, and whether cities are more sustainable, safe, and inclusive. Technology is a tool for achieving these goals, not the end in itself, "which precisely reflects the profound change in the concept of smart cities."
Adhering to the principle that smart city construction should better serve urban operations, open cooperation and experience exchange are indispensable. The expo organizers, together with the Barcelona City Council, held the "City Projects" activity to promote exchanges of strategies and experiences among city managers. In the European Cities Digital Twin cooperation project, cities such as Cartagena in Spain and Almere in the Netherlands promote the exchange of urban management experience and technical solutions by sharing data models, scenario simulation tools, and data platforms oriented toward residents.
In April this year, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, signed a cooperation memorandum with Valencia, Spain, proposing to strengthen cooperation in fields such as smart cities, data governance, investment promotion, and sustainable urban development, and to explore pilot applications in cities. The two sides will also conduct exchanges on urban transportation, emergency management, education, environmental protection, and secure and reliable digital infrastructure.
Mario Rubert, Director of the Barcelona International Economic Promotion Agency, said that the current Spain-China relationship is in a very good period historically, and Barcelona maintains close ties with multiple Chinese cities, with a good foundation for cooperation between the two sides in fields such as economy and trade, industry, ports, and tourism. Rubert said, "We look forward to European cities such as Barcelona further strengthening exchanges with Chinese cities and enterprises and expanding space for practical cooperation." Valenti said, "We welcome Chinese enterprises and cities to actively participate in the expo, and through this platform, to promote further exchanges between China's innovative forces and city managers and partners from Europe, Latin America, Africa, and other regions."
(People's Daily, Barcelona, Spain)
Return to TopBy: 张 萌
At the 2026 Global Governance Forum (Xiong'an) held recently, the Chinese side released the document "China's Position on Strengthening Outer Space Governance," marking the first time China has systematically elaborated its positions and propositions on outer space governance. The position paper takes the practice of the common values of all mankind as its fundamental guiding principle, advocates giving equal weight to outer space development and security, and to outer space stability and sustainability, and puts forward constructive ideas for resolving the issues of outer space development, security, and governance of common concern to all parties, providing a blueprint for the international community's relevant discussions and rule-making.
As one of the emerging fields of development, outer space likewise faces the strategic choice of the coexistence of opportunities and challenges (机遇挑战并存, ji yu chao shan bing cun - "opportunity, challenge, exist together"): whether to adhere to the peaceful use of outer space for the benefit of all mankind, or to introduce geopolitical confrontation into outer space and turn outer space into a "battlefield." As a major spacefaring nation, China has given a clear answer in "China's Position on Strengthening Outer Space Governance," namely, "opposing actions that use outer space to harm the sovereignty, security, and development interests of other countries. Respecting the sovereignty, security, and other legitimate rights and interests of all countries' outer space assets, outer space activities, and personnel," as well as "adhering to the principle of indivisible security in the outer space domain, reaffirming that the security interests of all countries in outer space are interdependent, and that any country, when pursuing its own outer space security, should take into account the legitimate security concerns of other countries."
A review of history makes it clear that since the very beginning of humanity's space age, "peaceful use of outer space" has been the primary feature of outer space governance. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union used an R-7 rocket to launch humanity's first artificial Earth satellite, "Sputnik 1," into orbit. A little over ten days later, Popović, then Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia, stated at the Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly that "the Soviet Earth satellite proves that the time is ripe for establishing international cooperation on missiles and satellites for the benefit of a wide range of interests." On November 13, 1958, "peaceful use of outer space" first appeared in a draft resolution proposing the establishment of an "Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space." On December 12, 1959, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1472, "International co-operation in the peaceful uses of outer space," formally established the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Ultimately, the United Nations "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies," which entered into force in 1967, that is, the Outer Space Treaty, was the first international treaty to stipulate legal principles for outer space activities, establishing "peaceful use of outer space" as one of its basic principles, namely, "recognizing that the exploration and use of outer space should be carried on for the benefit of all peoples." Therefore, "peaceful use of outer space" emerged and developed almost in step with the advent of humanity's space age.
The Outer Space Treaty advocates the principle of peaceful use and explicitly prohibits the deployment of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in outer space, namely, "not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner." Since then, the international community has gradually formed the taboo of "not deploying any weapons in outer space." That outer space has been able to remain a "safe and pure land" for a long time is due in no small part to "peaceful use of outer space," which has played a significant and indispensable contribution (功不可没, gong bu ke mei - "merit, cannot, not, be, small").
Today, however, this taboo has been broken. An individual country has openly announced the deployment of weapons in outer space, describing the function of these weapons as "space control," and explicitly stating that "discussing that we have this capability in orbit has deterrent value in and of itself." Nearly 70 years ago, "peaceful use of outer space" appeared precisely in a draft resolution co-submitted by that country; today, the first country to propose the establishment of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has become the first country to deploy weapons in outer space; the country that once advocated that there should be "no weapons in outer space" has now brought weapons into outer space. Breaking the taboo of "not deploying any weapons in outer space" is bound to lead to rising security risks.
In the "Concept Paper on the Global Security Initiative," China emphasizes that mankind is an indivisible security community, and that the security of one country should not come at the expense of the security of other countries. Strengthening global governance of outer space is an urgent issue facing mankind and a common responsibility of all countries. Against this backdrop, China emphasizes in "China's Position on Strengthening Outer Space Governance" that it adheres to giving equal weight to outer space development and security, and to outer space stability and sustainability, and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in the outer space domain, for the benefit of all mankind.
(The author is a senior engineer at the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Intelligence and Information Research)
Return to TopYunnan is the province with the largest number of indigenous ethnic groups in China, with a border line stretching 4,060 kilometers, bordering Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. Channeling the living water of finance to the border line and to the villages is the duty and mission of Fudian Bank. The Fudian Bank brand was founded in 1912, its name derived from the meaning of "enriching the people and prospering Yunnan," and it is a city commercial bank owned by Yunnan Province. Fudian Bank has deeply cultivated the "Centennial Fudian Pomegranate Red" brand, innovatively created the "Finance 1+7" creation model, and has threaded beautiful natural scenery (绿水青山, lv shui qing shan - "green, water, clear, mountain") — no, wait, that term does not appear here. Let me re-read. The term green waters and lush mountains appears in , not here.Let me correct.
Yunnan is the province with the largest number of indigenous ethnic groups in China, with a border line stretching 4,060 kilometers, bordering Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. Channeling the living water of finance to the border line and to the villages is the duty and mission of Fudian Bank. The Fudian Bank brand was founded in 1912, its name derived from the meaning of "enriching the people and prospering Yunnan," and it is a city commercial bank owned by Yunnan Province. Fudian Bank has deeply cultivated the "Centennial Fudian Pomegranate Red" brand, innovatively created the "Finance 1+7" creation model, and has carried a sense of community for the Chinese nation through the entire process of financial services, writing a new answer sheet for financial services that promotes ethnic unity and progress: "prospering toward the border, warming toward the people, advancing toward industry, and gathering toward the heart."
Prospering Toward the Border: Building Service Positions at the Doorsteps of the Masses
Along Yunnan's border line, Fudian Bank has opened 22 border-area branches and operates 328 inclusive financial service stations, building a three-dimensional service network of "institutions + service stations." After the China-Laos Railway opened to traffic, Fudian Bank linked its institutions from Kunming, Pu'er, Xishuangbanna, and Mohan to Vientiane into a line, achieving full-line coverage; in March 2026, the Luang Prabang branch of Lao-China Bank, Fudian Bank's overseas subsidiary bank, officially opened, adding a new fulcrum to the overseas service network and further improving the cross-border financial service network.
These continuously extending financial tentacles are a vivid portrayal of Fudian Bank's practice of serving the border regions. When a cultural tourism enterprise at the Mohan port encountered financing difficulties, the Mohan sub-branch of Fudian Bank comprehensively assessed the enterprise's operating cash flow and the credit status of its actual controller, and disbursed a 2.09 million yuan loan with shareholder joint and several guarantees and an preferential interest rate. With the loan in place, the enterprise began operating, and surrounding residents subsequently started businesses in catering, cross-border logistics, and other trades, truly realizing "one loan driving employment for a whole area."
Warming Toward the People: Delivering "Money That Can Be Used" into the Hands of the Masses
The financial needs of border-area residents are small in amount, scattered, and urgent. At the Guanlei port in Xishuangbanna, Dai and Hani residents have needs for border trade funds but cannot provide collateral. Relying on the "Border Resident Loan 2.0" product, Fudian Bank issued the bank's first 40,000 yuan border resident credit loan, converting border trade settlement to electronic operations and alleviating the funding pressure on border residents.
Over 16 years, the Dehong branch of Fudian Bank has cumulatively disbursed more than 30 billion yuan in loans, with services covering the three major ports of Jiegao, Zhangfeng, and Wanding. To enable people of all ethnic groups to "get loans, afford loans, and use loans well," Fudian Bank relies on inclusive financial service stations, layered with bilingual services, and is committed to opening up the "last kilometer" of financial benefits for the people.
Services delivered to the villages must also be delivered into people's hearts. Fudian Bank's village-resident team members are rooted in Jingpo and Dai ethnic villages, and were named "Most Beautiful Workers Rooted in the Border Regions" annual figures for Yunnan Province in 2024.
Advancing Toward Industry: Linking Ecology, Employment, and Opening-Up on One Chain
Financial services must not only be "within reach" but also "able to stay." Fudian Bank divides its credit into three main lines: the resource line connects beautiful natural scenery with the employment income of the masses; the park line focuses on infrastructure and resident enterprises, enabling ethnic minority residents to "leave the land but not the hometown, and enter the factory to increase income"; the port line integrates trade, logistics, cultural tourism, and cross-border RMB services. As of the end of June this year, the loan balances of the three main lines reached 39.5 billion yuan, 13.4 billion yuan, and 25 billion yuan respectively.
The Xishuangbanna branch of Fudian Bank supports the Gela River Xiangyang Mountain project, and the Shangri-La branch of Fudian Bank has disbursed 9.44 billion yuan to nourish the snow-covered plateau. Opening-up is Yunnan's prominent advantage; Fudian Bank established Lao-China Bank as a joint venture with the Lao Foreign Trade Public Bank, providing RMB settlement and small and micro enterprise loan services.
Gathering Toward the Heart: Integrating a Sense of Community into Team Building
Fudian Bank adheres to the leadership of Party building, has formulated and implemented the "List of Key Tasks for Creating a National Demonstration Unit for Ethnic Unity and Progress," and pays attention to recruiting employees who understand ethnic policies and are familiar with ethnic conditions. As of the end of September 2026, the bank has 1,046 ethnic minority cadres and employees; among the 8 autonomous prefecture branches, 5 branch leadership teams are staffed with ethnic minority cadres. Team after team of backbone personnel who can sink down, stay, and be put to use have become natural bonds connecting people of all ethnic groups.
Deep in the Yunnan mountains, pomegranate flowers bloom. From a single loan at the Mohan port, to the financial service network along the China-Laos Railway, to credit extended on the snow-covered plateau, Fudian Bank upholds the century-old heritage of "enriching the people and prospering Yunnan," creates new innovations in finance empowering ethnic unity, and contributes Fudian strength to Yunnan's construction of a national demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress.
Data source: Fudian Bank
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马跃峰 苏 滨
Thousands of peaks form forests, with picturesque scenery (风景如画, feng jing ru hua - "scenery, like, painting"). Stepping into the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province, one can feel the vitality of high-quality development everywhere.
In the new energy battery materials production workshop in Anlong County, batches of lithium-ion battery cathode materials "walk" off the production line and "rush" to the market; at the Wanfenglin Scenic Area in Xingyi City, homestay operators are busy receiving tourists from all over; on the mountain ridges along the Beipan River in Zhenfeng County, pepper, pasture, and fruit forests are layered one upon another, with green hope growing out of the cracks in the rocks... Located at the junction of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi, the Qianxinan Prefecture fully leverages its advantages of abundant mineral resources, rich tourism resources, and colorful ethnic culture, and, in light of local conditions, concentrates its efforts on tackling key challenges to forge a new path of high-quality development for ethnic minority regions.
Enhancing the "New Content" of Development
Leveraging Mineral Resource Advantages to Develop New-Type Industry
Stepping into the production workshop of Huiyang (Guizhou) New Energy Materials Co., Ltd., a warm current of air greets you. Crushing, graphitization, high-temperature carbonization and other equipment are arranged in sequence, and the intelligent production line for lithium battery anode materials is running at full capacity, as black carbon raw materials are refined into high-end anode materials needed for power batteries and energy storage batteries.
From a small production line at its inception to being embedded in the supply chain of leading domestic enterprises; from the first phase of 50,000 tons of lithium battery anode materials to a newly added 20,000-ton high-end artificial graphite production line, this "small player" that settled in Anlong County in 2021 has now grown into a leading enterprise in anode materials, with an annual output value exceeding 300 million yuan.
"This place is rich in resources such as coal, phosphorus, manganese, and aluminum, which can both provide upstream raw materials and ensure sufficient power supply, reducing electricity costs," said Hu Wenliang, Deputy General Manager of the company. The enterprise seizes the development opportunities of the new energy industry, intensifies scientific and technological innovation, has obtained more than 40 patent authorizations, and achieved a dual increase in both output and output value.
The Qianxinan Prefecture is rich in mineral resources, with more than 40 types of minerals discovered, among which the retained resource volumes of gold, coal, fluorite, titanium, antimony and other minerals rank among the top three in Guizhou Province. "Leveraging resource advantages, developing new-type industry, and enhancing the 'new content' of development — we are gradually reaping the benefits," said Jin Bo, Deputy Director of the Industry and Information Technology Bureau of the Qianxinan Prefecture.
With the Qianxinan High-tech Zone as the core, and the Anlong Economic Development Zone and Xingren Economic Development Zone developing in coordination, the entire prefecture has formed an industrial closed loop of cathode materials, anode materials, and battery recycling, making every effort to build an industrial cluster with an annual output value of 20 billion yuan, becoming a key bearing area for the province's new energy battery materials industry.
The Qianxinan Prefecture sits astride the two major water systems of the North and South Pan River, with abundant hydropower and outstanding wind and solar resource endowments among its high mountains and river valleys, making it an important part of the West-to-East Power Transmission project. Relying on the advantages of hydropower, wind power, and photovoltaics, the current installed capacity of clean energy is 14.27 million kilowatts, accounting for 85% of the prefecture's total installed power capacity, of which new energy installed capacity accounts for more than half. By continuously strengthening the 500 kV and 220 kV transmission channels, the capacity to absorb wind and solar power is constantly improved, contributing to green and low-carbon development.
In the first three quarters of this year, the gross domestic product of the Qianxinan Prefecture reached 116.346 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%. Among this, the added value of industries above designated size in the prefecture increased by 5.3% year-on-year, and industry's contribution rate to economic growth exceeded 30%.
Increasing the "Gold Content" of Development
Accelerating the Integration of Tourism Resources and Innovating Integrated Business Forms
On the sheer cliff face, steel cables stretch out in the clouds, and mountain winds howl through the canyon — this is the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou.
In the evening, several cars drive across the bridge and, following the winding village roads, head straight for Xiaohuajiang Village in Pingjie Township, Zhenfeng County, under the bridge. About 15 minutes later, a group of tourists carrying backpacks and cameras walk into the courtyard. Villager Liang Dexiang steps forward to greet them and leads the guests under the eaves. On the table are local bitter tea, with wisps of steam rising from the coarse clay teacups.
"This side has the view rooms. Open the doors and windows, and look up to see the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge," Liang Dexiang introduces the room types to the tourists.
A world-class high bridge gives birth to a world-class scenic area.
On September 28 last year, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, which is "the world's first in both 'horizontal' and 'vertical' terms," was officially opened to traffic. Within less than two months, Liang Dexiang, who had long been working in a luggage factory in Zhejiang, packed his bags and returned to his hometown to begin renovating a homestay. With 8 rooms and 10 beds, it is fully booked every day during the peak season. In the first eight months of this year, Liang Dexiang earned more than 100,000 yuan.
This Buyi ethnic village has successively seen the emergence of 25 homestays and 11 farmhouse restaurants, and the villagers now make a living from tourism.
The opening of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge has removed the regional transportation bottleneck and accelerated the integration of tourism resources — the Huajiang Grand Canyon, Zhenfeng Ancient City, Wanfenglin Scenic Area, Xingyi Global Geopark and others are now strung together like beads on a chain; a normalized linkage and coordination mechanism has been established along the route, promoting the joint promotion of tourism routes and the sharing of tourist source resources, creating integrated business forms, and turning traffic flow into visitor retention.
"The bridge is an opportunity for developing culture and tourism, and has built a bridge to prosperity for the masses," said Liu Yao, Deputy Director of the Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau of the Qianxinan Prefecture.
Shaping tourism with culture, and promoting culture through tourism. From selling scenery to selling experiences, from single-spot sightseeing to all-for-one tourism, the Qianxinan Prefecture takes the International Mountain Tourism and Outdoor Sports Conference as an opportunity to build itself into a karst mountain outdoor sports destination and an all-season residence and wellness destination, striving to create a new cultural tourism brand for "Colorful Guizhou."
"Focusing on the three key elements of resources, tourist sources, and services, we are upgrading and renovating scenic areas, iterating and upgrading business forms, deeply transforming the tourism experience, and helping the masses increase their income and get rich," Liu Yao said with confidence.
In the first three quarters of this year, the number of domestic tourists received by the Qianxinan Prefecture increased by 9.52% year-on-year, and total tourism spending increased by 10.47% year-on-year.
Cultivating the "Green Content" of Development
Firmly Protecting the Ecology and Expanding the Path of "Two Mountains" Transformation
On both banks of the Beipan River Grand Canyon, karst peak clusters stretch in unbroken succession.
At the passion fruit base in Lurong Township, Zhenfeng County, grower Liang Song squats under the trellis, picking fruits that have just turned color, with fresh fruit loaded in his bamboo basket.
"This orchard was grown out of rocky crevices." In the early years, relying on the slope-to-terrace project, Liang Song tilted each layer of terraced fields slightly inward from the outside, with the inner drainage ditches hidden beneath the turf. During light rain, water is stored in the soil; during heavy rain, it drains away along the ditches. The fruit tree roots firmly grip the shallow soil layer, turning the rocky desertified mountain where even grass could hardly grow into a flower and fruit garden "full of gold." With 10 mu of passion fruit, each mu yields about 1,000 jin, selling well in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zhejiang and other places, with an annual net income of nearly 100,000 yuan.
Why can poor rocky desertified land grow fruit that sells well? By identifying advantages, leveraging strengths and avoiding weaknesses, and expanding the path of "Two Mountains" transformation.
Zhenfeng County is located in the low-heat river valley zone of the Pearl River water system, with a warm and humid climate and abundant sunshine, which perfectly matches the growth characteristics of passion fruit and dragon fruit, giving them their unique quality of being juicy and sweet.
"We must hold the two bottom lines of development and ecology, and take the path of industrial ecologization and ecological industrialization," said Huang Gang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Forestry Bureau of Zhenfeng County. Since 2008, through the path of "governance + industry," a cumulative investment of 192 million yuan has been made, completing comprehensive rocky desertification treatment over an area of 357.29 square kilometers. The total output value of passion fruit, dragon fruit, and mango has exceeded 1.6 billion yuan, driving more than 4,000 households to increase their income.
Opening up the channel for "Two Mountains" transformation cannot be separated from institutional innovation.
On September 17 this year, the third prefecture-level forestry carbon ticket of the Qianxinan Prefecture was officially jointly issued by the Provincial Forestry Bureau and the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment. The holder is the Puqing State-owned Forest Farm of the prefecture. The project covers a forest area of 1,636.08 mu, with monitored carbon emission reductions of 13,036.14 tons during the monitoring period, valued at over 1.3 million yuan.
This is another forestry carbon sink achievement implemented in the prefecture, successfully activating dormant forest ecological resources and making forestry carbon tickets a tradable, cashable ecological "hard currency." "We must improve the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, so that lucid waters and lush mountains can be quantified, traded, mortgaged, and monetized, and cultivate the 'green content' of development," said Long Hanyong, Deputy Director of the Forestry Bureau of the Qianxinan Prefecture.
Today, the prefecture continues to expand the diversified application scenarios of "forestry carbon tickets +," building a virtuous cycle in which ecological benefits feed back into green development, empowering enterprises' green transformation, scenic areas' low-carbon operations, and public institutions' energy conservation and carbon reduction with carbon sinks, guiding refined management, and continuously improving forest quality, so that the background color of lucid waters and lush mountains is brighter and the quality of gold and silver mountains is fuller. As of the end of 2025, the forest coverage rate of the Qianxinan Prefecture reached 63.19%, the proportion of days with good ambient air quality remained stably above 99%, the excellent rate of water quality at national and provincial controlled monitoring sections of surface water was 100%, and the compliance rate of ecological flow sections of key rivers and lakes was above 90%.
"During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we must deeply tap and fully utilize comparative advantages, accelerate the building of a modern industrial system with Qianxinan characteristics, and unswervingly (坚定不移, jian ding bu yi - "firm, steady, not, move") follow the new path of high-quality development led by advantages and driven by vigorous catch-up efforts," said Qiu Zhenguo, Secretary of the Qianxinan Prefecture Party Committee.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 娴 陈隽逸
"3, 2, 1, jump!" On the deck of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, at the command, a wingsuit flying athlete leaped into the void, tracing a smooth arc between the world's tallest bridge and the deep valley below. On October 23, the four-day "Race Through Guizhou's Scenery · Soaring Over Guizhou" International High-Bridge Low-Altitude Skydiving Invitational concluded, with more than 30 top athletes from 19 countries and regions competing.
From October 28 to 29, the "Earth's Crack" International Whitewater Slalom Extreme Race was held in the Maling River Grand Canyon, where approximately 200 kayakers from home and abroad gathered in the canyon, braving the waves and riding the swells (劈波逐浪, pi bo zhu lang - "split, waves, chase, waves") between the rushing rapids and sheer cliffs...
From November 8 to 11, the 2026 International Conference on Mountain Tourism and Outdoor Sports was held. This international gathering, now in its tenth year, once again convened in the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou.
In less than a month, events including high-bridge skydiving, whitewater slalom, triathlon, recreational fishing, and hiking followed one after another, with competitions unfolding across the air, land, and water — this is precisely the driving effect released by the International Conference on Mountain Tourism and Outdoor Sports, and it is also the "mountain tourism calling card" that Qianxinan Prefecture presents to the world.
With the theme "Integration of Culture, Tourism, and Sports · High-Quality Living — Deep Breathing in the Mountains · Slow Living in Residency," this year's conference held an opening ceremony, the annual meeting of the International Mountain Tourism Alliance, and multiple outdoor sports competitions. Investment promotion was carried out in key areas such as mountain residency and wellness, mountain residency real estate, mountain tourism, and outdoor sports, while ethnic cultural activities including Guizhou's "Village Dance" performances made a simultaneous appearance. Centering on the three key elements of resources, visitors, and services, and upholding the conference philosophy of "internationalization, marketization, branding, and popularization," the conference continued to explore the path of integrated development of "mountain tourism + outdoor sports" and related industries.
The inaugural conference opened in Qianxinan Prefecture in 2015, and over more than a decade it has journeyed along the mountains. In 2017, the International Mountain Tourism Alliance was inaugurated in Xingyi, Guizhou. Today, this international high-end summit has become an important platform for exchange and cooperation in international mountain tourism and outdoor sports.
"Qianxinan Prefecture has exceptionally favorable mountain resources and a strong foundation for developing mountain tourism and outdoor sports. Once the right development path is identified, the value of these resources can be fully released," said Wang Wenbo, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Qianxinan Prefecture Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism. "Karst peak forests, canyon bridges, and distinctive caves constitute the unique resource endowment of Qianxinan Prefecture, which can support the development of multi-tiered mountain sports products. At the same time, we take homestays as an important vehicle, integrating mountain residency and wellness, study tourism, and local ethnic culture to build a distinctive competitiveness that belongs to Qianxinan Prefecture."
Beneath the Wanfeng Forest, tourist Wang Maoxian rented a bicycle to ride through the rice paddies and peak forest. "Cycling in the Wanfeng Forest is very comfortable, and the rental is not expensive either." He and his family stayed several nights in a homestay, and their greatest impression was one of "relaxation." "Wandering through the villages and looking at the fields, I feel very at ease. Coming to Qianxinan Prefecture, you can live right inside the scenery."
Some time ago, a short self-driving travel video sent the topic "Qianxinan: Scenery Along Every Roadside" to the trending list: as the camera panned, the hundred-meter waterfall of the Maling River Grand Canyon hung from the karst cliffs, with mist swirling and rainbows appearing and disappearing. The scenery that offers "check-in the moment you land" has been dubbed by netizens as Xingyi's "landing visa."
Scenery keeps visitors, and industry takes root. Li Mingbo, manager of the Fengxi · Banshan Homestay in the Wanfeng Forest, was an early "pathfinder" who came to open a homestay here. He said: "We have to find ways to make guests willing to stay." Today, more than 3,300 business entities of various types have gathered around the Wanfeng Forest, directly or indirectly driving more than 30,000 local residents to stable nearby employment.
At present, Qianxinan Prefecture has 48 A-grade tourist attractions and more than 1,000 homestays and guesthouses, with the 478 homestays in the Wanfeng Forest forming the largest homestay industry cluster in Guizhou. The Qianxinan Prefecture Karst Mountain Outdoor Sports Destination has been selected as one of the first batch of national high-quality outdoor sports destinations, the only region in Guizhou Province to be so selected.
To build a competition economy, Qianxinan Prefecture has introduced the preferential policy of "One Race Number, Travel Freely Through Qianxinan," promoting a shift among visitors from "one day of competition" to "multiple days of consumption." The Wanfeng Forest marathon course winds through the countryside, incorporating performances such as "Eight-Tone Seated Singing" and Guizhou's "Village Dance."
Since the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, the popularity of bridge-tourism integration has climbed. After a full year of operation, the bridge's tourism integration project has delivered an impressive report card: a cumulative total of 3.65 million tourist visits, with vehicles entering the area exceeding 830,000.
By "playing" the mountains into something meaningful, the economic ledger becomes ever clearer: from January to September 2026, overnight visitors received by commercial accommodation establishments across the prefecture increased by 17.5 percent compared with 2025, of which overnight visitors from outside the province increased by 43.54 percent. Mountain tourism, outdoor sports, ethnic culture, and tourism consumption are deeply interweaving among the peak forests, canyons, and lakeshores, and Qianxinan Prefecture is accelerating its construction as a first-class tourist city, a karst mountain outdoor sports destination, and an all-season mountain residency and wellness destination.
"Using the conference as a medium, using the conference to invigorate industry, and using the conference to open new horizons, Qianxinan Prefecture is leveraging the platform of the International Conference on Mountain Tourism and Outdoor Sports to convert mountain resources and competition traffic into momentum for tourism consumption and industrial development, continuously polishing the cultural tourism calling card of 'Where Ten Thousand Peaks Form a Forest, Sunny Qianxinan,'" said Liu Jie, Vice Governor of the Qianxinan Prefecture People's Government.
Return to TopThe Sujiatun Wind Farm in Dachang Town, Qinglong County, is located in the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province, transmitting green energy for the West-to-East Power Transmission project. The photo shows a corner of the wind farm.
Photo by Lu Guanwen.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程 焕
"Embroiderer, embroiderer, beautiful embroiderer, nourished by the mountains and waters of Guizhou..." Recently, on the stage of the Grand Theater of the Beijing Cultural Palace of Nationalities, a song-and-dance drama from the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou was performed for three consecutive evenings. The singing was melodious, the dance steps were spirited, and the beauty of the mountain wilderness was intoxicating. As the only work from Guizhou Province selected for the 7th National Minority Arts Festival, Jin·Lan uses song and dance as its medium and culture as its bridge, bringing more than ten items of intangible cultural heritage onto the stage. Among the cast and crew are no small number of farmers, embroiderers, and folk artists. "The performers are not acting; they are restoring the true colors of rural life," said chief director Wei Qijun. The masses perform, perform as the masses, and perform life; the protagonists are always the masses, and the "flavor of the soil" can also radiate a stirring artistic charm.
The Qianxinan Prefecture is home to 46 ethnic groups, and for thousands of years, dance has been a part of life. At festivals and celebrations, during seasonal agricultural activities (春耕秋收, chun geng qiu shou - "spring plowing, autumn harvest"), and at weddings and birthday felicitations, wherever there is bustle, there is rhythm. With the rise of a note from the lusheng and the fall of a drumbeat, field ridges, courtyard grounds, and fireside corners can all become stages, gradually forming a folk custom landscape of "festivals in every season, song and dance at every festival, and everyone able to dance."
The Qianxinan Prefecture has sorted, integrated, and revitalized the folk dance resources scattered across its villages, building the Guizhou "Village Dance" cultural brand. Local authorities encourage villagers to write, direct, and perform their own works, incorporating content such as transforming outdated customs, respecting the elderly and cherishing family, and rural revitalization into the dances, and planning themed activities according to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Since its launch last December, this dance feast has quickly become another calling card of Guizhou's "village-brand" series. In Qinglong, the bonfire at the Ameiqituo Town ignites, and tourists and locals dance with feet stamping the ground; in Wangmo, colorful five-colored kangbao bags spin and fly; in Xingren, the crisp clatter of wooden stools striking together interweaves and echoes with the sound of orderly foot-stomping... Relying on the normalized performance platform built by "Village Dance," a number of intangible cultural heritage dances have stepped out of the villages and into squares, campuses, and scenic areas. Since the beginning of this year, the prefecture has held more than 400 "Village Dance" events in total, with over 2 million participant-visits. "We have integrated 'Village Dance' into golden tourist routes such as Wanfenglin, allowing visitors to encounter authentic rural dance parties and adding cultural depth to tourism," said Liu Yao, deputy director of the Qianxinan Prefecture Culture, Sports, Radio, Television, and Tourism Bureau.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程 焕
In the early morning, at the Donghu Wetland Park in Xingren City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, the air is cool and pleasant. After practicing a set of tai chi on the waterside platform and then strolling along the lake, nearby resident Ao Chao comes here almost every day to "check in."
But in previous years, whenever he passed by Donghu, he would rather take a detour. "Back then, the lake surface was covered with floating garbage and oily film, the water was pitch black, and in summer, you could smell the pungent odor from afar—we didn't even dare open the windows at home." Talking about the Donghu of the past, Ao Chao shook his head repeatedly. At that time, drainage and sewage treatment facilities could not keep pace with the city's development, and large amounts of sewage seeped into the lake; surrounding residents and farmhouse restaurants dumped garbage at will, making a bad situation even worse (雪上加霜, xue shang jia shuang - "snow, on, add, frost").
Wherever the pain points are, that is where governance is directed. Xingren City launched a systematic battle for water ecological governance: more than 200 lakeside households and farmhouse restaurants were relocated in accordance with the law, a modern sewage treatment plant with a daily processing capacity of 5,000 tons emerged suddenly and grandly (拔地而起, ba di er qi - "pull, earth, particle, rise"), and a complete rainwater and sewage pipe network system was laid throughout... After a series of coordinated measures (组合拳, zu he quan - "combine, set, fist"), sewage in the area achieved full collection and full treatment, and Donghu pollution was curbed at its source.
Governance did not stop at pollution control. On the basis of ecological restoration, Xingren City built waterside platforms, leisure trails, and cultural landscape belts along the lake, creating a composite public space integrating ecological conservation, public recreation, and cultural display. Over several years, Donghu has become a "city reception hall" that residents enjoy, and in 2025 it was selected as a provincial-level excellent case of beautiful and happy rivers and lakes.
The transformation of Donghu is a vivid example of Qianxinan Prefecture advancing ecological governance and achieving green transformation. Qianxinan Prefecture is an important ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Pearl River. For many years, the entire prefecture has adhered to the coordinated advancement of expanding green space, revitalizing green space, and protecting green space, continuously promoting comprehensive treatment of rocky desertification, soil erosion control, and systematic protection and restoration of river basins, integrating ecological protection throughout the entire process of economic and social development.
By the end of 2025, the forest coverage rate of Qianxinan Prefecture reached 63.19%, with a forest area of 15.92 million mu. A large number of rocky desertification lands that were once bare rock have gradually been restored to shrubland and woodland, and barren mountains have been reclothed in green. The proportion of days with good ambient air quality has remained stably above 99% for many consecutive years, the excellent rate of water quality at national and provincial monitoring sections of surface water is 100%, and the quality of the surface water environment ranks among the forefront of prefecture-level cities nationwide.
"Whether the ecological environment is good or not cannot be judged by data alone; the personal feelings of the people are the most genuine measure." Zhao Long, director of the Qianxinan Prefecture Ecological Environment Bureau, said that the prefecture will continue to deepen the battle against pollution, coordinate the synergistic development of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, accelerate the construction of a beautiful Qianxinan Prefecture, continuously improve the modernization level of ecological environment governance, and use the "green content" of the ecological environment to enhance the "gold content" of development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈隽逸
The Panxing high-speed railway train arrives with a whistling roar, delivering tourists to Xingyi South Station in Guizhou. A short drive away, thousands of peaks spread out before the eyes, and the waters of the Maling River Gorge roar as they flow.
Within a 25-kilometer radius of Xingyi City in the Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, eight scenic areas are distributed, including Wanfeng Forest, Maling River Gorge, and Wanfeng Lake, forming a unique pattern of "one city, eight scenic spots, city and scenery integrated." Tourists need not rush about, but can shuttle between urban streets and alleys and karst landscapes.
As night falls, the lights of the Dafofang neighborhood light up. Wei Wanyong, a resident in his 60s, carries an electric wind instrument to Chuanyun Cave Park, and melodious music spreads through the old streets and alleys. Dafofang is the core area of the historical and cultural district of Xingyi City's central garden. In June 2024, Xingyi City carried out a comprehensive upgrade and renovation of Dafofang and its surroundings, giving it new vitality with modern design concepts. Chen Hansheng, a tourist from Guangxi, was deeply moved after strolling through the old streets. "I originally just passed by to check in, but I didn't expect the old city's everyday life to have a unique and special flavor (别有一番风味, bie you yi fan feng wei - "not, have, one, kind, flavor")."
Heading south along the city, in Nahei Village beneath Wanfeng Forest, old Buyi houses have been transformed into distinctive homestays. "During the peak season, we are almost fully booked every day, with an annual income of about 200,000 yuan," said villager Luo Yiping.
Su Qiuyan, a native of Fujian, is the manager of the "Youshange" homestay in Wanfeng Forest. "Many tourists are no longer satisfied with taking photos and leaving; they hope to stay and slow down." Su Qiuyan often rides an electric bicycle to rural markets to purchase local rice and farm ingredients, and has also brought indigo dyeing and tea art experiences into the homestay. Many guests stay for two to three months at a time, and the proportion of repeat customers is very high.
Transportation improvements have amplified the effectiveness of city-scenery integration. The Panxing high-speed railway and the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge link up a 200-kilometer golden tourism belt in western Guizhou, realizing "fast travel, slow tourism." During the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays in 2026, the growth rate of homestay bookings in the Qianxinan Prefecture ranked among the highest in the country, and the proportion of overnight tourists continued to rise.
"City-scenery integration focuses on tapping into the everyday life of the local area, making life itself a tourism product," said Wang Na, member of the Standing Committee of the Xingyi Municipal Party Committee, head of the Propaganda Department, and head of the United Front Work Department. In recent years, Xingyi City has vigorously promoted urban renewal, improving road networks, parking lots, and public leisure spaces to accommodate the increasing day by day (与日俱增, yu ri ju zeng - "with, sun, increase, increase") flow of tourists. The tourist flow has driven the prosperity of homestays, markets, and wellness industries, prompting the city to continuously optimize its services.
Residents enjoy the renewed urban home, and tourists immersively experience the mountain atmosphere of everyday life. Landscape resources and urban life coexist, and a picture of a livable and visitable karst city is slowly unfolding.
Return to TopRecently, Dongfeng Yipai's new model, the Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition, was officially launched. The new model targets the 150,000-yuan-class pure electric large six-seat market, is equipped with Dongfeng's self-developed Tianyuan intelligent solution, and comes standard with CATL battery cells and a three-row large six-seat layout, providing high-quality new energy mobility options for multi-member families. The new model is offered in two variants, the 600Pro Tianyuan Laser Edition and the 600Max Tianyuan Laser Edition, with purchase incentives such as trade-in subsidies, financing, and warranty packages launched simultaneously. The limited-time subsidized price starts at 159,800 yuan; for details on benefits and validity periods, please refer to the Dongfeng Yipai official website.
As household consumption in China continues to upgrade, consumer demand for family vehicles has shifted from basic commuting to high quality and full-scenario applicability. Six-seat pure electric models that accommodate multiple passengers, offer long range, and deliver an intelligent experience are increasingly becoming a popular choice for family car purchases. Leveraging its advantages as a central state-owned enterprise automaker, Dongfeng Yipai has targeted the core needs of mainstream family users with the launch of the Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition, further enriching the quality supply in the 150,000-yuan-class pure electric large six-seat market.
Standing at a new development milestone with cumulative users exceeding 300,000, Dongfeng Yipai has formed a product layout for the Yipai M8 series characterized by "the same flagship foundation, two intelligent routes." The newly launched Tianyuan Laser Edition and the previously launched Qiankun Edition share the same body architecture, chassis tuning, and safety standards, and are respectively equipped with Dongfeng's self-developed Tianyuan intelligent solution and Huawei's Qiankun intelligent solution, offering differentiated choices for family users with different intelligent needs and different car purchase budgets. Among them, the Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition comes standard with CATL battery cells and a comfortable cabin configuration, allowing users to enjoy an all-scenario intelligent mobility experience that combines advanced intelligence with reliable quality.
Self-developed Tianyuan intelligent solution
Applying advanced assisted driving and dual-AI cabin
Adhering to the "self-development + co-creation" dual-wheel-driven technology development path, Dongfeng Yipai continues to build easy-to-use, practical intelligent vehicle solutions. The Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition is fully equipped with Dongfeng's self-developed Tianyuan intelligent driving system and Tianyuan cabin.
On the intelligent driving front, the Tianyuan intelligent driving system is built on the Horizon J6M high-performance domain control platform and is equipped with 25 high-precision perception hardware components, including Hesai lidar, achieving dual-scenario coverage of highway and urban navigation assisted driving (NOA). It can assist with automatic highway ramp entry and exit, urban intersection passage, and lane-changing obstacle avoidance, and can maintain smooth passage in complex scenarios such as congested roads, construction zones, and mountainous curves. In terms of active safety, the new model comes standard with automatic emergency braking (AEB), intersection assistance, and other functions, and supports integrated parking, remote parking, cross-floor memory parking, and track reversing, effectively resolving daily driving challenges such as parking in narrow spaces.
On the cabin front, the Tianyuan cabin is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon SA8295P automotive-grade chip, integrating dual-AI large model voice interaction capabilities, supporting natural spoken language recognition, continuous command execution, and real-time Q&A, delivering a dual-AI cabin. The vehicle features a 50-inch augmented reality head-up display (AR-HUD) and a 15.6-inch 2.5K ultra-high-definition center console screen, supporting three-finger screen projection; with the "Scene Master" function, users can customize multi-device linkage modes for seats, climate control, audio-visual, and more, enjoying a personalized cabin experience.
"5-3-6" spatial standard
Accommodating multi-passenger seating and diverse mobility needs
Addressing the common pain point of cramped third-row space in six-seat SUVs, the Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition follows the "5-3-6" spatial standard, using a 5,020 mm body length and 3,025 mm wheelbase to achieve a 5-meter-class body length and 3-meter-class wheelbase, realizing a three-row large six-seat layout with an axle-to-length ratio of 60.3%. The second and third rows feature a flat floor design, and third-row knee room exceeds 50 mm, allowing six adult occupants to enjoy ample legroom even at full capacity.
The interior seat layout supports flexible switching between 3-seat and 6-seat configurations, with trunk volume expandable up to 1,794 liters. Combined with a low 445 mm entry step and an independent front trunk, it balances boarding convenience for all occupants with large luggage loading capacity. In terms of comfort features, the front seats support ventilation, heating, and massage; the second row is equipped with cloud-feel seats and comfortable leg rests; and the rear features a ceiling-mounted entertainment screen certified by Rheinland for low blue light eye protection, as well as an 8.8-liter dual-mode intelligent hot-and-cold box supporting wide-range temperature control from -6°C to 10°C (cooling) and 35°C to 50°C (heating). The entire vehicle uses double-layer laminated sound-insulating glass, combined with a high-strength aluminum alloy H-arm rear suspension and professional team chassis tuning, balancing driving stability and ride quietness. A minimum turning radius of 5.6 meters also allows this mid-to-large SUV to adapt flexibly to urban scenarios.
Standard CATL battery cells and 800V fast charging
Building a safety defense line with strict quality control
Dongfeng Yipai insists on building good cars for Chinese families—not fast-moving consumer goods, but durable products. The Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition comes standard with the Jindun battery equipped with CATL battery cells, establishing triple protection through a structural shield, cell shield, and cloud shield. Among these, the battery pack adopts 16,000-ton integrated die-casting technology and 120 Ah prismatic cell packaging, combined with an AI cloud safety guardian for real-time monitoring and early warning, and has successfully passed four sequential extreme tests conducted by CATARC: underbody scraping, wading, roasting, and crushing. The new model achieves a CLTC combined range of 600 kilometers, with a CATARC full-domain energy efficiency verification range achievement rate exceeding 109%; relying on the 800V high-voltage platform and 4C ultra-fast charging technology, the battery can be charged from 30% to 80% in just 15.5 minutes, and offers a 6 kW vehicle-to-load (V2L) function.
On the vehicle safety and durability front, the new model adopts a high-rigidity cage-type energy-absorbing body, with ultra-high-strength steel applied extensively to key areas of the occupant compartment; it is equipped with Blowout Stability 2.0 and the Rock-Solid Stability intelligent anti-skid system to enhance driving stability on extreme road conditions and wet surfaces. The Yipai M8 series has completed over 10 million kilometers of all-terrain durability verification cumulatively, the body adopts an 8-coat paint process, and for first owners of non-commercial vehicles, it provides lifetime warranty for the entire vehicle and the "three-electric" system, effectively reducing users' long-term ownership concerns.
Dongfeng Yipai insists on accompanying every household (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, family, ten thousand, household") in their daily mobility with advanced automotive technology. The Yipai M8 Tianyuan Laser Edition integrates the self-developed intelligent system, CATL pure electric power, and three-row large six-seat space, providing a quality option for multi-member families seeking a high-quality pure electric large six-seat SUV, allowing more family users to buy with confidence, use with ease, and enjoy a high-quality new energy mobility life. With the launch of the Tianyuan Laser Edition, the Yipai M8 has formed a dual-intelligent-version layout, offering more choices for family users with different intelligent needs and car purchase budgets.
Data source: Dongfeng Yipai Automobile Sales (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
Return to TopThe new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating and breaking through, bringing profound impacts on global skills development, and the importance of vocational education and skilled talent cultivation is becoming even more prominent. In recent years, China has continuously improved its modern vocational education system, consolidated the talent support for industrial development, and deepened international exchanges and cooperation. International students from Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos and other countries have come to China, delving into hands-on practice in clothing design and craft training rooms, cross-border e-commerce training grounds, and drone test flight bases, acquiring skills at the junction of classroom and industry while also perceiving a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China.
Cambodian international student Namei
Gained an opportunity
to improve employability
Wang Zhe, Jiang Xingguo
"The lines must be smooth" "The stitch spacing should be more even"... In the training room for the clothing design and craft major at Shandong Vocational College of Light Industry, Cambodian international student Namei focused on operating the sewing equipment, while her instructor stood beside her reminding her of the key movements. After smoothly completing the entire process from pattern making to sewing, Namei carefully placed the finished garment components on the display table.
In recent years, Shandong Vocational College of Light Industry has actively promoted the internationalization of vocational education, explored a training model for international students of "Chinese language + vocational skills," integrated language learning, professional skills, and intangible cultural heritage into international student education, and cultivated a large number of composite talents who both understand Chinese and possess professional skills. In November 2024, the college proactively aligned with enterprise needs and, together with Luthai Group and Svay Rieng University of Cambodia, jointly established the Cambodia "Ban-Mo College," building a tripartite collaborative education model of "college + enterprise + overseas college," and tailoring training programs that precisely match enterprise job requirements.
In March 2025, the overseas order-based class of the Cambodia "Ban-Mo College" officially began. Namei came to Shandong from Rajshahi in her hometown of Cambodia to study clothing design and craft. "When I first arrived, I could not understand Chinese professional terms like 'overlocking' and 'pattern making' at all," Namei said. With the help of her teachers and classmates, she worked hard to learn Chinese in class, insisted on recording key points of garment-making techniques in Chinese, and the notebook she carried with her was densely filled with Hanyu Pinyin.
"The school teaches theoretical knowledge, but places even more emphasis on practical training." Under the careful guidance of her teachers, Namei systematically studied core courses such as the fundamentals of garment technology, three-dimensional draping, and ready-to-wear garment production, and completed multiple rounds of practical training in the school's garment training center. The experience of independently completing an entire set of clothing design and production for the first time remains vivid in her memory (记忆犹新, jì yì yóu xīn - "memory, still, exists, new"). "From pattern making, cutting, to sewing, the teacher was guiding me the whole time." At first Namei's movements were unskilled, and her stitching lines often went crooked, but the teacher patiently helped her correct each one. "I can now understand the professional courses, and I have also learned clothing design and craft. This brings me an unprecedented sense of achievement!"
After more than a year of systematic study, Namei is now completely at ease with every process of garment pattern making and can skillfully handle the design requirements of different styles of clothing. What fascinates her even more is visiting the intangible cultural heritage master studios to experience tie-dyeing, paper-cutting, and embroidery. "An ordinary piece of white cloth, after being folded, tied up, and put into the dye vat, when unfolded actually reveals such beautiful patterns — it is simply like magic!" Namei said that she is trying to combine Chinese intangible cultural heritage elements such as tie-dyeing and embroidery with Cambodian traditional clothing patterns, stitching them one needle and one thread at a time into the garments she designs. "Embroidery requires great patience, and it has also made me more composed when doing pattern making."
"The cooperation between China and Cambodia in the field of vocational education and skills training has given us the opportunity to improve our employability. My family and friends are all proud that I can come to China to study," Namei said. She hopes to continue improving her Chinese proficiency and design capabilities, incorporate more Chinese intangible cultural heritage elements into her works, and become an envoy of cultural exchange between Cambodia and China.
(Li Yongxin participated in the reporting)
Malaysian international student Jin Yeshang
Learned valuable experience
not found in textbooks
People's Daily reporter Dou Hanyang
"First confirm the product keywords, then verify the procurement cost, international freight, and exchange rate fluctuations, and finally edit the short video materials..." In front of a shop in the Yiwu International Trade City in Zhejiang, Malaysian international student Jin Yeshang took notes while asking the merchant about the operational know-how of a cross-border online store. As a student majoring in international business at the Nanxun campus of Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, he made a special trip to this "world supermarket" to learn practical skills from merchants and accumulate market experience.
Moving between the various shops, Jin Yeshang learned up close about the supply capacity, minimum order thresholds, and new product iteration pace of source factories. He asked merchants about practical difficulties such as overseas after-sales handling and overseas warehouse stocking, and also shared Southeast Asian market consumer preferences and platform rules with them. Now able to talk confidently with merchants, he was still a shy teenager when he first came to China. "Back then I could not speak the language and the environment was unfamiliar. During class presentations and speeches at the podium, I was so nervous that my palms sweated, and I did not dare to take the initiative to speak at all," he said.
What brought about the change in Jin Yeshang was a course that moved real business into the classroom. "Before participating in the simulated operation, I thought cross-border e-commerce was just selling things online. Only after finishing the course did I understand that behind it all is a complete set of rigorous business logic." The "simulated operation" Jin Yeshang referred to is a comprehensive practical course in cross-border e-commerce offered by Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, and all the instructors are front-line cross-border e-commerce practitioners who have worked deeply in the industry for many years. From overseas market research and data analysis for product selection, to calculating procurement costs and cross-border fulfillment costs; from product listing optimization and short video content planning and filming, to order fulfillment simulation and profit review, the course fully presents real cross-border e-commerce operation scenarios. "Simulated operation is the best way to test learning outcomes, and it has allowed me to gain valuable experience that cannot be found in textbooks," Jin Yeshang said.
Relying on its distinctive cross-border e-commerce courses, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power integrates language learning, professional teaching, and industrial practice, and has cultivated more than 40 composite trade talents among its international business students who understand Chinese, are versed in business, and know how to operate. Jin Yeshang said that what attracted him to study in China was precisely China's mature and complete digital e-commerce ecosystem. Zhejiang has a concentration of e-commerce platforms, accessible supply chains, and a well-developed logistics system, with new business forms such as livestream e-commerce and market procurement trade flourishing. "Here, the classroom is connected to the market, and teaching is aligned with industry, allowing one to feel the true pulse of digital trade up close."
"I hope to bring the cross-border e-commerce operation experience I learned in China back to Southeast Asia," Jin Yeshang said. He is currently testing the waters by operating a cross-border online store targeting the Malaysian market, focusing on household small commodities. Based on local consumption habits, Jin Yeshang independently completed product selection, graphic design, and short video filming and distribution. Relying on short videos to drive traffic, orders at the store are growing steadily. In his spare time, he also shares his life in China with family and friends in Malaysia on social media, and introduces Malaysian customs and culture to his Chinese classmates. "I want to build a bridge of commerce, push China's quality products to Southeast Asia, and also introduce Southeast Asia's specialty products to China, so that economic and trade cooperation and youth exchanges can continue," Jin Yeshang said.
Lao international student Li Ping
Developed real skills
in operating drones
People's Daily reporter Zhang Danhua
On the drone training ground of Xi'an Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute in Shaanxi, Lao student Li Ping pinched the propeller and turned it in reverse, twisting the rubber band tighter and tighter, then raised the aircraft model high and adjusted the direction of the nose. The moment she let go, the propeller buzzed, and the aircraft drew an arc in the air before circling down to land.
Li Ping is a student majoring in drone application technology at Xi'an Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute. Before coming to China to study, almost all her imagination about aviation came from books. "When I first arrived, I could not even say the three characters for 'drone' fluently," Li Ping said with a laugh. The Yanliang Aviation City where the institute is located integrates aircraft research and design, manufacturing, flight test and certification, education and training, and tourism experience. Aviation elements can be seen everywhere on the streets and alleys, and the advanced training facilities and strong industrial atmosphere deeply impressed her. "The moment I arrived in Yanliang, I made up my mind that I must truly master real skills."
During her first independent test flight, Li Ping gripped the remote controller, her hands trembling uncontrollably. With a gentle push of the joystick, the drone suddenly veered off the scheduled route, and the fuselage shook violently. Before she could react, the aircraft crashed head-on into the training ground's guardrail, and the rotor blades struck the railing with a harsh sound — an instant "crash." The sudden accident left Li Ping frozen in place. Her instructor Tian Fang quickly came over to comfort her and taught her hand by hand to correct operating habits such as applying too much force and taking her eyes off the aircraft. Takeoff, hovering, turning... practicing the basic movements over and over again with her teacher, Li Ping finally mastered the essentials of controlling the drone. "I seem to have found the feel of it, and now I can achieve 'perfectly synchronized with the machine' (人机合一, rén jī hé yī - "person, machine, combine, one"). Seeing it with your eyes is not really knowing it; only when your hands can do it are you truly capable," she said.
Today, what Li Ping enjoys most is using drones for aerial photography. Every time she looks through the beautiful aerial photos, she cannot help but marvel at the magic of drones. Li Ping's growth benefits from the "Jingshi Academy of Drone Application Technology" jointly established by Xi'an Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute and Lao Pabasa Technical College. Since its establishment in October 2022, by actively cooperating with enterprises to carry out order-based training of international students, the project has cultivated more than 40 technical and skilled talents for Laos and other countries who understand technology, speak Chinese, and know China, among whom 8 have entered the Lao drone industry and 2 have founded drone service companies.
"I want to use the drone technology I have learned for the development of my hometown," Li Ping said. Laos has vast mountainous areas and abundant agricultural and forestry resources, and drones have great potential for application in vegetation protection, ecological monitoring, and resource inspection. When she returns to Laos during holidays to visit family, she also tells her relatives and friends about what she has seen and heard in China — the industrial vitality of Yanliang Aviation City, the practical training model of Chinese vocational education, and the friendly and inclusive atmosphere on campus. Li Ping hopes to use her personal experience to help more Lao youth understand China and draw closer to China. "I want to be a bridge for exchanges between Lao and Chinese youth and tell my story to more people."
Return to TopBy: 彭斌柏
In his congratulatory letter to the 2022 World Conference on the Development of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, President Xi Jinping pointed out that China actively promotes the high-quality development of vocational education and supports exchanges and cooperation in vocational education between China and other countries. China is willing to work together with countries around the world to strengthen learning from each other and learning from each other's experiences (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "mutually, learn, mutually, examine"), joint construction and shared benefits, join hands in implementing the Global Development Initiative, and contribute to accelerating the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Vocational education is closely connected to economic and social development, linked on one side to industrial development and on the other to countless households. In recent years, China has continuously deepened international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education, enabling young people from different countries to realize their life dreams by virtue of a special skill or expertise (一技之长, yi ji zhi chang - "one, skill, particle, long"). This is both a practical need for promoting global industrial development and an important pathway for fostering people-to-people connectivity (民心相通, min xin xiang tong - "people, heart, mutually, connect").
Vocational education builds a bridge of skills. The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is advancing in depth; artificial intelligence, digital technology, and green and low-carbon technologies continue to reshape the industrial ecosystem, giving rise to a large number of new occupations and new jobs and profoundly changing traditional modes of production and labor. China upholds the philosophy of "teaching follows production, schools and enterprises go hand in hand," and has joined hands with more than 80 countries and regions to implement more than 500 vocational education cooperation projects, covering key industries such as rail transit, high-end equipment manufacturing, information and communications, and new energy. Wherever industrial cooperation extends, the cultivation of skilled talent follows and is laid out accordingly; whatever local development urgently needs, vocational education cooperation responds to in a timely manner. From jointly building curriculum systems and polishing classroom teaching, to setting up practical training platforms and connecting with on-the-job operations; from jointly carrying out specialty development to deepening collaborative talent cultivation across industrial chains, vocational education transcends regional and institutional differences, promotes mutual recognition of technical standards, mutual learning of teaching experience, and the flow of skilled personnel, and is increasingly becoming a solid bond that promotes industrial connectivity and mutually beneficial cooperation among countries.
Vocational education builds a bridge of development. The "Luban Workshop" has cumulatively trained more than 30,000 degree-seeking students and provided skills training for more than 160,000 person-times; a number of distinctive vocational education cooperation brands, such as the Modern Craftsman College, the Silk Road College, and the "Ban-Mo College," continue to be cultivated and expanded. These "small yet beautiful, beneficial to people's livelihoods, and sustainable" cooperation projects are linked on one side to the practical needs of industrial transformation and upgrading in partner countries and regions, and on the other side pave a path for local youth to grow through skills and achieve stable employment, vividly interpreting through tangible educational outcomes the solemn commitment of the Global Development Initiative that "no country and no one should be left behind." Once applicable skills are connected with job positions and interlocked with industry, they are no longer abstract knowledge but livelihood safeguards that can be measured, increase income, and be passed on. When one person masters a craft, the family gains a stable source of support; when a batch of local talent grows up, the country's industrial development gains the confidence of skills support.
Vocational education builds a bridge of friendship. The friendship between countries lies in the affinity between their peoples, and the affinity between peoples lies in the connection of their hearts. Skills are the common language of humanity. Skills effectively transcend linguistic differences, and craftsmanship is best understood by one another. Chinese teachers and corporate technical experts go overseas, and in the process of imparting skills and jointly solving problems on the production front line, they come to know and befriend local youth and forge friendships. Overseas youth, in classrooms and practical training workshops, study Chinese standards, learn about China's development, and spend their days alongside Chinese teachers, continuously perceiving a more real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China. While imparting skills, vocational education also sows the seeds of friendship. Technology will iterate, industries will upgrade, and business forms will change, but the mutual understanding and affinity formed through the process of refining and polishing skills through constant practice (如切如磋, ru qie ru cuo - "as, cut, as, grind") and the process of continuous improvement and refinement (如琢如磨, ru zhuo ru mo - "as, polish, as, grind") in the exchange of skills will be passed down from generation to generation and continue to grow, constantly giving rise to the flowers of friendship and bearing abundant fruit.
The 2026 World Conference on the Development of Technical and Vocational Education and Training has just concluded, and China's vocational education development has received widespread acclaim from the international community, with many foreign political leaders expressing their willingness to deepen cooperation. Forty-five countries jointly released the World Framework for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Standards (the Beijing Agreement), which is the first international vocational education standard formulated under China's leadership, marking the leap of China's international exchanges and cooperation in vocational education from the 1.0 stage of "personnel exchanges" and the 2.0 stage of "project cooperation" to the 3.0 stage of "standard leadership," fully demonstrating the international influence, competitiveness, and shaping power of China's vocational education.
What vocational education imparts is skills, what it creates is opportunity, and what it connects is people's hearts. China is gathering development momentum through openness and cooperation, enhancing people's well-being through skills cultivation, and promoting people-to-people connectivity through exchanges and mutual learning, joining hands to implement the Global Development Initiative and continuously contributing new strength to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
(The author is Director-General of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 任彤彤
"The Hengduan Mountains, the road is hard to traverse. The enemy's heavy forces press upon the Guizhou border. With their feet, the soldiers traverse the world, crossing the Chishui River four times with unexpected troops..."
In the camp, the singing is sonorous, the melody stirring. Officers and soldiers of the "Model Third Company" of a brigade under the 79th Group Army of the Army once again sang this classic passage from the "Long March Suite." Before the singing had ended, everyone's thoughts had already been drawn back to the banks of the Chishui River more than 90 years ago, and the fearless charging figures of their forebears seemed to be right before their eyes.
Tracing time back to early 1935, after the Zunyi Conference, Chairman Mao, with extraordinary military boldness, led the Red Army to gallop across the border region of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou, skillfully weaving between the enemy's heavy forces, and successfully breaking out of the enemy's encirclement—
This was the Four Crossings of the Chishui River, which Chairman Mao called the "proudest stroke" of his life.
At that time, the predecessor unit of the Third Company personally experienced and witnessed that period of history. In the Battle of Tucheng, the company's officers and soldiers were entrusted with a mission at a critical moment, and under the cover of night, they launched a concealed surprise attack on the enemy battalion headquarters guarding the strategic pass. At a very small cost, the officers and soldiers captured an entire enemy battalion. After the battle, the company was awarded the honorary title of "Model Third Company." The gene of victory through flexible maneuver and overcoming the strong with skill was deeply etched into the bloodline of this Red Army company.
Entering the new era, the officers and soldiers of the Third Company have successively explored and developed multiple practical methods, and multiple innovative achievements have been promoted throughout the brigade. The company has been awarded honorary titles 11 times, and has been credited with 2 collective first-class merits, 3 second-class merits, and 8 third-class merits. Piece after piece of weighty medal, item after item of solid achievement—these are the powerful annotations of the word "Model."
Inheritance: what is passed on is not only tactical experience, but also a responsibility
An old-style bugle is displayed in the display case of the "Model Third Company" honor room.
Whenever the company has a change of principal officers, a solemn bugle handover ceremony is held beneath the company flag. "This bugle has been preserved from the war years to the present day, witnessing the countless forward charges of the Third Company's forebears." Standing before the display case, the company's political instructor Li Jialin said, "Taking over this bugle means leading the company to continue charging forward."
Born from the Nanchang Uprising, having experienced the Jinggangshan struggle, the five counter-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea... Stepping into the honor room, one historical photograph after another spreads out before one's eyes the company's nearly century-long magnificent journey.
Li Jialin pointed to the old photographs on the wall of the honor room and told the Long March stories of the Red Army forebears. When he came to the part about the Four Crossings of the Chishui River, the soldiers listened with exceptional absorption.
In the photographs, the Chishui River flows swiftly, the shoals are dangerous and difficult to traverse, silently telling of the perils of the breakout back then. "Why were the forebears able to 'take out' an entire enemy battalion without firing almost a single shot?" Facing the curious gazes of the new soldiers, Li Jialin continued to recount the details of that surprise attack back then—
On that night more than 90 years ago, the enemy forces facing the Third Company had superior numbers, making a frontal assault difficult. Then-Company Commander Zhou Changsheng set the time of the surprise attack for late at night, concealed infiltration, launching the attack from the flank.
Under Zhou Changsheng's leadership, the officers and soldiers of the Third Company, shielded by the cover of night, gradually approached the enemy camp along the mountain paths. "At that time, the company dispatched a small detachment that, without a sound, 'captured alive' the enemy sentry responsible for guard duty." Li Jialin said that from the prisoner, the Red Army forebears learned an unexpected piece of information: most of the enemy's officers were playing cards at the battalion headquarters, and their defense was extremely lax.
The officers and soldiers of the Third Company seized the opportunity, struck directly at the enemy battalion headquarters, and caught them completely off guard. In their panic, the enemy surrendered their weapons one after another.
Today, the "Model Third Company" flag, which has weathered the smoke and fire of war, hangs high in the center position on the wall of the honor room.
Soldier Chen Yunpeng, who enlisted last year, stood before the flag for a long time. "That flag has long since faded, but in my eyes it remains dazzlingly brilliant."
On the day of the company induction ceremony, every new soldier solemnly wrote his name and number in the company history register, signifying that he had officially become a member of this unit, a new page in the weighty company history of the "Model Third Company."
Looking up at the "Model Third Company" flag, Chen Yunpeng's heart was deeply moved: "How glorious it is to be a member of this heroic company! Whether in tactical training or daily performance, I must live up to this flag and must never hold the company back."
As inheritors of the Red Army in the new era, the company integrates red education into the details of daily life, regularly organizes officers and soldiers to visit red heritage sites for study and research, holds company history storytelling sessions, and learns to sing the company song, transforming the sense of honor into intrinsic motivation for training for combat and striving for excellence.
"The power of the model is greater than we imagine." Deputy Squad Leader Yu Yuxuan said that during training breaks, it is common for soldiers to gather and talk about company history. "Zeng Guohua, Li Chuanhai, Gong Zimei... We have never forgotten the names of these combat heroes. They have always been by our side, never far away."
This power inspires the officers and soldiers of the Third Company to strive forward.
Platoon Leader Liao Changdeng said firmly: "As inheritors of the Red Army, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard! This kind of inheritance is not just about passing on tactical experience, but also a responsibility." When he first enlisted, the platoon Liao Changdeng was in unfortunately lost in a competition. With a spirit of refusing to admit defeat, he took the initiative to step out of his comfort zone, starting with his weak subjects, identifying shortcomings and closing gaps item by item, and repeatedly achieved excellent results in realistic combat training competitions.
At last year's military sports meet, the company's officers and soldiers signed up for the 10,000-meter relay event: 10 soldiers each running 1,000 meters, linked link by link, testing not only endurance but also tacit coordination. During the preparation period, everyone took the initiative to add extra training. On the morning running track and in the evening glow, one could always see their running figures.
Before the competition, Li Jialin encouraged the soldiers preparing for the race: "Let go of your burdens, march forward courageously, and run out the Third Company's spirit of daring to charge and daring to win."
The starting gun sounded, and the baton was passed from hand to hand among the soldiers. Everyone clenched their teeth and sprinted with all their might, winning first place in the entire brigade in the 10,000-meter relay event, adding another new medal to the honor roll of the "Model Third Company."
The more complex the situation and the harder the opponent is to predict, the more one must seek victory in "change"
"There's a small grove of trees over there—could there be an ambush hidden in it?"
During a red-blue confrontation exercise, the company commander Xu Shihao was leading officers and soldiers in plotting the situation map and studying the terrain when, suddenly, his gaze locked onto an area on the map.
According to the established deduction plan, the blue force would not deploy troops at such a long distance. "What if?" Xu Shihao and several platoon leaders repeatedly studied the map and became alert: "Live-force confrontation has no fixed rules. The blue force is very likely to have hidden troops in this grove."
After discussion, the company settled on a risky move: sending out a reconnaissance detachment in advance, which, on the night before the main force launched its attack, quietly moved forward to the grove area for concealed close-in reconnaissance. Squad Leader Feng Lening, who participated in the mission, recalled: "This prediction was quickly verified. The blue force broke from its original deployment and hid a platoon of troops in this grove."
After obtaining the intelligence, the company immediately adjusted its tactics on the spot and deployed its tactical formation in advance in front of the grove. The next day, the main force launched its assault on schedule. The assault element of the reconnaissance detachment struck first, successfully clearing out the ambush and opening up the route.
With flexible response, the officers and soldiers of the Third Company reproduced on the exercise ground the battle method of their forebears of winning by unexpected means (出奇制胜, chu qi zhi sheng - "out, strange, achieve, victory"). During the after-action review following the exercise, the officers and soldiers remarked that if they had mechanically followed the plan and only discovered the "enemy" troops when the main force entered the ambush circle in the grove, the company would very likely have suffered heavy losses.
"During the Four Crossings of the Chishui River, the Red Army officers and soldiers accurately seized opportunities, flexibly adjusted their actions, turned passivity into initiative, and shook off the enemy's pursuit and interception." Xu Shihao said firmly that today, the equipment has changed and the battlefield has changed, but the logic of victory has not changed. The more complex the situation and the harder the opponent is to predict, the more one must seek victory in "change."
From individual soldier and individual equipment operations and squad coordination, to small-group integrated tactical training, the officers and soldiers of the Third Company are exploring a new model of modular operations. "Figuratively speaking, it's like building with building blocks—flexibly organizing teams according to the nature of the mission, putting reconnaissance, engineer, chemical defense, and other different specialties to use." Xu Shihao introduced.
"Relying on infantry charging hard alone, it is difficult to achieve a decisive victory." Squad Leader Liu Yuxiang said that after modular organization, various professional forces such as firepower, electronic countermeasures, and emergency repair make the system response more efficient and the handling of sudden situations faster.
While the new organizational model brings operational advantages, it also places higher demands on the individual comprehensive capabilities of officers and soldiers. "For the officers and soldiers of the company, this is no small challenge." Xu Shihao said that commanders must not only be proficient in infantry tactics, but also skilled in equipment operation and learn to coordinate and command different professional forces to act in concert.
During a special exercise, the company's modular organization battle method was put to the test. While advancing toward the battlefield, a special situation suddenly arose: the vehicle-mounted navigation was jammed and malfunctioned by the "enemy." Xu Shihao, as the commander, immediately handled the situation, re-designated the movement route, and guided air firepower to suppress the "enemy's" rear.
"The blue force's right flank defense is empty!" Relying on real-time imagery from the drone, the officers and soldiers keenly seized the opportunity. Xu Shihao immediately adjusted the plan and ordered Squad Leader Kong Fanxin to lead a small detachment on a rapid concealed infiltration. "We were like a sharp dagger thrust into the enemy's rear, pinning down the blue force's mobile elements." Kong Fanxin said.
At the same time, soldier Sun Fei was ordered to lead his squad in a charge from the right flank, being the first to break into the target area. From launching the assault to seizing control of the key point, it took only a little over 10 minutes. Sun Fei said: "The moment we planted the flag on the position, we were overwhelmed with excitement and cheered together."
The meaning of training is to discover shortcomings and close shortcomings on the training ground
From a new recruit weighing just over 90 jin who could only do a single-digit number of pull-ups, to a recognized physical fitness ace and the all-around first in brigade-level competitions, the transformation of Deputy Squad Leader Ma Ka Xiaolin is a vivid microcosm of the growth of the company's officers and soldiers.
Speaking of the secret to standing out, Ma Ka Xiaolin said modestly: "There is no shortcut to improving performance; the only way is to settle down and train solidly." When he first enlisted, his physical fitness results lagged far behind those of his fellow new recruits, and he could only complete 3 pull-ups at a time. Refusing to accept defeat, he took the initiative to add pressure on himself. From then on, his comrades could always see his figure silently adding extra training on the training ground. As his capability shortcomings were closed one by one, he reached the excellent standard steadily in all physical fitness subjects, and scored full marks in several events.
After training himself into an ace, Ma Ka Xiaolin took the initiative to take on the responsibility of mentoring and passing on experience. Facing new recruits with weaker physical fitness and unfamiliar movements, he identified the characteristics of each one, tailored training plans according to each person's shortcomings, and led everyone in breaking through bottlenecks. Ma Ka Xiaolin said: "One person being strong doesn't count as strong. Only when the whole company is of one mind and every matter is grasped firmly and done meticulously can we be worthy of the glorious title of 'Model Third Company.'"
Opening the Third Company's training report card, some excel in physical fitness subjects, and others lead the way in professional assessments. This year, Liu Yuxiang successfully passed the assessment and was rated as a special-grade technical expert in marksmanship, one of the few officers and soldiers in the entire brigade to obtain this qualification.
This outstanding skill was honed step by step following the company's equipment iteration. That year of reform and adjustment, the company transitioned from motorized infantry to armored infantry. Two years later, the company was equipped with new-type infantry fighting vehicles. In just three years, the equipment was changed twice; the platform's informatization level was higher, and the equipment structure was more complex. "Fire control circuits and optoelectronic components increased exponentially, bringing many new difficulties." Liu Yuxiang recalled that in the face of the difficulties exposed on the exercise ground, he led his comrades in repeated trial training to identify the crux of the problems and explore more efficient handling methods.
On the solid foundation of human-vehicle coordination, they then advanced into new fields, incorporating drones and unmanned ground vehicles into the combat chain, and actively exploring entirely new tactics of manned-unmanned coordination.
Looking across the training ground, officers and soldiers maneuvered several drones, lowering their rotors and flying close to the shrubs on the mountain ridges.
Beside the shelter, Chen Yunpeng steadily moved the control stick, his gaze fixed on the display screen. On the screen, the outline of the position gradually became clearer.
In recent years, portable drone operation has been added to the company's training subject list. Whether it is forward reconnaissance or aerial bombing, every item must be trained to proficiency. Chen Yunpeng said: "Before, I had only seen unmanned equipment play a role on the battlefield in videos. When I actually got my hands on it, my palms were sweating."
At the beginning, the squad leader first had Chen Yunpeng repeatedly familiarize himself with the control feel on the simulator. Only after consolidating the foundation was he arranged for live equipment training. But in the first bombing assessment, the munition failed to be delivered, the assessment was failed, and several comrades in the same group also failed to meet the standard.
The squad leader did not criticize Chen Yunpeng, but instead accompanied him in reviewing and troubleshooting item by item, helping him find the root cause of the problem. "It's not scary to have problems. The meaning of training is to discover shortcomings and close shortcomings on the training ground." The squad leader's encouragement helped him shed his mental burden and throw himself back into training.
In the Third Company, unmanned equipment is no longer a novelty. Relying on drones, the reconnaissance range is larger, intelligence accuracy is higher, and the risk of officers and soldiers approaching the front line is reduced. They actively embrace new equipment, study new skills, and break through themselves in flight after flight of test flights and round after round of hard training. Li Jialin introduced: "At present, dozens of people in the company already have the capability to operate unmanned equipment. The next step is to strive for the entire company to achieve skilled independent operation."
As night fell, the company's officers and soldiers assembled for evening roll call. The duty officer started it, and the whole company shouted the company motto in unison: "Red Third Company, Iron Third Company, invincible and courageous, charging forward!" The sound spread through the camp, carrying far into the distance.
The beacon fires of war have receded into the distance, but the bugle call does not cease, inspiring the officers and soldiers of the Third Company to march toward the next "surprise attack."
(Dong Yue participated in the reporting)
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Recently, a piece of news warmed people's hearts: new progress has been made in the identification work of the remains of the Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs in the Republic of Korea, and the identities of eight volunteer army martyrs have been confirmed. They are Shi Zhicheng, Xia Xiaolong, Zhang Zhenfa, Ren Dianyi, Jiao Dezheng, Xia Zongzhi, Chen Zhiguo, and Zhang Changxing.
After being sealed away for more than seventy years, the names of these heroes have been called out anew by the motherland and their loved ones.
Since 2014, China has brought back the remains of 1,023 volunteer army martyrs from the Republic of Korea in 13 batches over 13 consecutive years, and has confirmed the identities of 44 volunteer army martyrs in the Republic of Korea and found their relatives. From "nameless" to "named," from returning to the country to returning home, the gap spans more than seventy years and countless people's over a long period of time (经年累月, jing nian lei yue - "passed, years, accumulated, months") of searching.
The search process has been fraught with hardship. DNA identification of aged remains is internationally recognized as having two major difficulties: DNA extraction and the identification of complex kinship relations. These martyrs were generally young when they sacrificed their lives, most had no children, and coupled with skeletal damage and genetic degradation, confirming their identities has been especially difficult.
Precisely because it is difficult, every name recovered is backed by a persistence that never gives up. The National Martyrs' Remains DNA Identification Laboratory has established a rapid and efficient DNA extraction method, and the national veterans affairs system has checked every clue one by one... Before the end of this year, the integrated platform for finding martyrs' relatives will be officially launched and opened to the public. Searching for heroes has become an action in which everyone can take part.
Pooling strength and making every effort to break through — what is being sought is blood kinship, what is being fulfilled is the long-cherished wish of family and country, and what is being passed on is spiritual faith.
The author has participated in the ceremonies to welcome back the remains of volunteer army martyrs from the Republic of Korea on multiple occasions, and has been deeply moved each time. At those times, on electronic screens throughout the streets and alleys of Shenyang, Liaoning, tribute slogans lit up one after another: "Why does the earth keep spring forever — heroes' lives bloom with flowers," "In the name of the city, welcome the heroes"... The motorcade carrying the coffins of the martyrs moved slowly forward, and crowds of people stood on both sides of the streets, gazing at the martyrs' return. This scene was deeply moving. Why does a city greet heroes returning home with the highest courtesy every year? Because the motherland will not forget, and the people will not forget, the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country and the people.
Even more gratifying is that today, more and more young people are taking up the responsibility of guarding the martyrs. In Nanjing, Jiangsu, a group of college students with an average age of just over 20 have used paintbrushes and artificial intelligence technology to restore the faces of martyrs. Over more than three years, they have drawn more than 300 portraits. An elderly relative of a martyr, aged 93, trembled as she received a portrait of her husband, whose image in the painting is forever frozen at just over 20 years old; the old woman's tears streamed down her face (泪水夺眶而出, lei shui duo kuang er chu - "tears, snatch, eye socket, emerge"). These young people painted portraits, and in return gained "reunions" spanning decades for family after family.
This tribute goes beyond portraits. In Shenyang, 90-year-old veteran volunteer army soldier Nan Qixiang has sounded the battle bugle stained by the flames of war time and again to welcome back his comrades-in-arms from those years; millions of primary, secondary, and university students in Liaoning attended the same major ideological and political course, "Heroes Never Take Their Final Bow," and students were moved to tears before their screens; in the comment sections of news about finding martyrs' relatives, messages such as "Though we never met their faces, we have received their grace" and "They lie down so that we may stand with dignity" poured in one after another, each writing out heartfelt words... Young people of the new era approach heroes and pay tribute to heroes in their own ways, and the spirit of heroes has gained a warmth that can be touched.
From welcoming back the remains to finding relatives, from streets and alleys to classrooms, every act of remembrance is a baptism of the spirit; every tribute is a transmission of faith.
See the world you never saw, write the poems you never wrote. Today's China, with its magnificent landscapes and beautiful scenery (山河锦绣, shan he jin xiu - "mountain, river, brocade, beautiful") and a prosperous country and peaceful life for the people (国泰民安, guo tai min an - "country, prosperous, people, peaceful"), was won by the martyrs' desperate defense back then. The martyrs did not live to see the day of victory, but the fruits of victory bear the imprint of their youth. Bringing the martyrs from "nameless" to "named," passing on the spirit of the heroes, and continuing to advance the great cause for which they shed their blood and sacrificed their lives — this is the best consolation for the martyrs.
Return to TopBy: 徐广明
In the evening, after finishing the last sortie, I returned to the mission planning room and opened the mind map on my computer. There was a question mark on the map, marked a few days earlier, and to this day the answer still remained blank.
In the first year of converting to the new aircraft, the flying itself was not difficult—the handling was not much different. Throttle, control inputs, attention allocation—once you practiced, it became smooth. The difficulty lay in tactical employment, which was an entirely new field. I was among the first batch from my unit sent to another location for conversion training. Reference materials were scarce, and no one around me had flown this aircraft type. Taking a step was easy, but no one could tell you which step counted as the right one. If you took a wrong step and only found out once you reached the battlefield, it would be too late.
During that period, I trained with the flight instructor during the day and consulted the factory technicians, and at night I returned to the dormitory to sort through things line by line on the computer. When young pilots asked me whether this path was correct, I did not dare to speak with certainty. I could only reply: fly first, and look at the data after the flight.
So I set myself a simple-minded method. Anything not yet verified, I would first mark with a question mark on the map, highlighted in a conspicuous color. Fly once, come back and fill it in once. Whether it was coordination that had not been achieved, or new targets and new tactics never seen before, I would screen factor by factor. For the same set of data, flying it again at a different altitude might yield a different conclusion. To judge whether I was on the right track, I had to let the flight results speak for me.
The method was honed in missions, and so was the confidence. With the same subject and different conditions, the data would not be the same. Where the difference lay and how large it was often constituted its very characteristics. These characteristics were not written in books, and others did not explain them. One could only compare again and again on one's own. Experience from the old aircraft type was still useful—it told me where to look, but it could also easily lead me into the "trap" of past experience.
On one occasion, we detected a batch of data. We classified it according to previous experience, but after classifying it, we always felt something was off, yet could not say what was wrong. That night I went over the map from beginning to end (从头到尾, cong tou dao wei - "from head, to tail") once more, and only then discovered that there were problems in several places.
The next day, I put question marks back on those places. Some question marks I could not resolve on my own, so I worked together with pilots from brother units and military research institutes to tackle them. We revised the tactics version after version, and after revising, we flew again, until verification passed, and only then crossed out the question marks.
This mind map, of course, was not drawn by me alone. The young people in the unit flew along with me and filled it in together. Everyone accumulated data of various types item by item to build a database, and also worked out a set of discrimination methods, testing them for a long time. This database later won an award in the unit's evaluation.
This year I went to give a national defense open class to children. After class, a group of children surrounded me and called me "Pilot Uncle." I was taken aback, still feeling in my heart that I was "Pilot Big Brother." Looking back on it, they probably were not wrong—the young people in the unit were already the age I was when I flew my first aircraft type.
The aircraft are changing, the adversary is changing, and people are changing too. Over the years, more and more questions have been added to the map, and more and more have been crossed out. There is flying tomorrow, and the newly added question mark on the map still needs to be tested again in the sky.
(The author is a pilot of a certain aviation unit of the Western Theater Command Air Force; interviewed and compiled by Jin Zhengbo and Ge Lechen)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 白光迪
In March this year, at Runyang Square in Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, a storefront displayed two signs reading "Xiafan Cai" (home-style dishes) and "Grandma's Home," corresponding to different shops on food delivery platforms, yet the meals all came from the same place...
This was somewhat suspicious, and many delivery riders reported the confusion they encountered when picking up orders, along with problems such as the dirty and messy environment at the pickup points, to the relevant authorities.
For a food delivery order, whether the shop's qualifications are genuine or fake, where the meals are processed, and who is responsible if problems arise—all of these concern consumers' health and rights.
In the concentrated rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, the Yangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission coordinated and promoted the effort, while the Hanjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission coordinated the market supervision and public security departments to work in tandem. Based on preliminary investigations and data comparison, local authorities started from an inconspicuous delivery-only restaurant using a fake license, uncovered a chain of forging and selling fake certificates, and pursued the case to the end, resolutely safeguarding the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the masses.
Multiple Identities Behind a Single Storefront
During interviews, several delivery riders told reporters that over a period of time, it was not uncommon for a single pickup point to display two or three signs corresponding to multiple online shops.
A proprietor of an online catering shop said that sharing storefronts, equipment, and staff could reduce rent and labor costs, and that borrowing multiple online shops to gain exposure and traffic allowed orders to be pooled into a single kitchen.
Hu Linsen, Party Secretary and Director of the Hanjiang District Market Supervision Administration, introduced that the "Implementation Measures of Jiangsu Province for Food Business Licensing and Filing Administration" clearly stipulates that food business operators shall properly keep their food business licenses and shall not forge, alter, resell, rent, lend, or transfer them. Using fake certificates to give online shops "multiple identities" crosses the legal red line. Such illegal operations squeeze the business space of compliant merchants and easily lead to vicious competition; the inconsistency between online and offline information also increases the difficulty of verification and accountability, providing space for "ghost delivery" to hide.
In early March this year, the Hanjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission took the lead in deploying the effort, clarifying that the discipline inspection and supervisory commissions would supervise the entire process, the market supervision department would take the lead in investigation, and the public security would strike across the entire chain. Through follow-up supervision, joint consultations, and research, the district commission pushed the market supervision department to extend its supervisory reach to pickup points, kitchens, and platform shops. Market supervision law enforcement personnel went to Runyang Square, photographed suspicious storefront signs and pickup instructions, sent them into work groups, and compared them with platform shop and license information to identify key targets.
On March 13, multiple departments coordinated to conduct a dragnet inspection of 65 merchants in the square. At Room 103A, Building 3, law enforcement personnel compared the information publicly displayed by the two online shops "Xiafan Cai" and "Grandma's Home" item by item against the registration and food business licensing systems, and found that both the business license and the food business license were forged.
On March 16, the shop owners, the couple surnamed Liu and Hu, were questioned and confessed that the two fake certificates had been purchased separately through WeChat and a Pinduoduo shop, costing 400 yuan and 350 yuan. Following clues to find the source (顺藤摸瓜, shun teng mo gua - "follow the vine, find the melon"), the market supervision department identified Ye and Wu, who were suspected of forging the certificates.
"Supervision is not about replacing departmental law enforcement, but about promoting the implementation of responsibilities and unblocking coordination bottlenecks, so that what should be investigated is investigated early, and what should be transferred is transferred quickly," said Zhou Yong, Secretary of the Hanjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Director of the Supervisory Commission.
Under the coordination and promotion of the Hanjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, the market supervision and public security departments broke the convention of "transferring only after the case is fully investigated," conducting advance consultations and simultaneous evidence collection. That afternoon, police officers went to the market supervision department to review the interrogation records, and shortly thereafter, the leads were formally transferred and the public security organs filed and investigated the case. By April 3, Ye, Wu, and others had all been subjected to criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law.
Tracing the Certificate-Purchasing Channel to the Source of Counterfeiting
After the first round of inspections, some shop operators suddenly closed up and left. Was it a business problem, or had they gotten wind of something and were lying low?
The Hanjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission continued to follow up on supervision, again coordinating consultations between the market supervision and public security departments, urging that no suspicious point be let go, and pushing the case investigation to extend from "investigating the use of fake certificates" to "pursuing the source of counterfeiting."
The two departments conducted a new round of inspections at Runyang Square, and following the leads of merchants using fake certificates, identified Chi, an operator of a delivery-only restaurant. Upon investigation, it was found that the 3 small catering information display cards he used for himself were all forged.
Upon further questioning, new circumstances surfaced: Chi not only bought fake certificates for himself but also recommended certificate-handling services to neighboring merchants. He confessed that he had also helped others obtain 2 fake cards. On one occasion, he collected 600 yuan from a merchant but transferred only 60 yuan to the counterfeiter.
Following the leads Chi confessed to, the Yangzhou Hanjiang Public Security Sub-bureau found the agent Wang, but he was not the ultimate counterfeiter either. Who actually produced the certificates still needed to be traced further up the chain.
"If the source of fake certificates is not pursued, rectification is prone to rebound. Our follow-up supervision is precisely to push departments to investigate the chain to the end and hold responsibility to account," Zhou Yong said.
During the investigation, the district commission simultaneously tracked and supervised the progress, pushing all departments to perform their duties according to law within their respective scopes and work in the same direction, avoiding broken leads and shelved cases. The market supervision and public security departments invited the procuratorate and the court to consult on case characterization and evidence standards, cross-corroborating certificate verification, merchant interrogations, chat records, and fund flows. The market supervision department verified certificates, the public security department investigated sources, and scattered transaction records gradually linked up the upstream and downstream relationships.
Ultimately, the leads pointed to Tong, a temporary resident of Tianjin who worked in printing and copying. "We acted immediately, dispatched personnel for cross-regional verification and evidence collection, and gradually clarified the source of the fake certificates' production," said Zhang Kai, Captain of the Food, Drug, and Environmental Crime Investigation Brigade of the Hanjiang Public Security Sub-bureau. On April 28, Tong was subjected to criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law.
Carefully analyzing a complex situation to reveal the truth (抽丝剥茧, chou si boo jie - "pull the silk, unwrap the cocoon"), the investigation was deepened and pursued to the end. As of the end of June, a total of 3 criminal gangs had been dismantled, 3 criminal chains severed, 13 criminal suspects arrested, 135 forged certificates seized, and the involved delivery business turnover exceeded 10 million yuan.
From Investigating Fake Certificates to Whole-Process Supervision
"The shop operates with its certificate displayed, and the kitchen is clean and tidy. Everyone cleans every day, and before leaving work at night, we do a thorough cleaning," Chi said. This investigation made him realize that business qualifications cannot involve engaging in fraud or deception (弄虚作假, nong xu zuo jia - "do false, make fake"). Now, he has split his braised pork rice and grilled meat rice operations into two physical storefronts and standardized his certificates and licenses as required.
"Investigating one case is not the end point. What the masses care about is whether the kitchen is clean, whether the platform's verification is strict, and whether the food they eat is hygienic—supervision must focus on these specific matters and push rectification to achieve tangible results and governance to achieve long-term effectiveness," said Diao Renjun, Deputy Leader of the Tenth Resident Supervision and Inspection Group of the Yangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission. To this end, the municipal and district discipline inspection and supervisory commissions further urged the market supervision department to sort out the "three lists" of problems, tasks, and responsibilities, clarify rectification responsibilities and deadlines, track rectification through spot checks and "look-back" reviews, and push the rectification to extend to similar venues, achieving the goal of addressing one case to provide warnings and governance for the whole area (查处一案、警示一片、治理一域, cha chu yi an, jing shi yi pian, zhi li yi yu - "investigate one case, warn an area, govern a region").
The basement level of Changjian Square, also a concentrated area for delivery-only restaurants without dine-in service, also underwent renovation. There had been problems such as corridor clutter and clogged public sinks. The market supervision department, together with the sub-district, community, and property management, provided door-to-door guidance: shops divided their interiors into areas for rough processing, cooking, washing and disinfection, and improved drainage and exhaust facilities; public areas were equipped with shared storage rooms and rest areas; and transparent pickup windows were uniformly installed so that riders could quickly pick up orders without entering the kitchen.
Hou Juanjuan, a property management staff member, recalled that previously some workers did not habitually wear work caps and needed repeated reminders, but now the habit of wearing caps has gradually formed. The large screen at the entrance also rotates displays of the kitchen scenes of various shops.
During the interview, the reporter met Mr. Zhang, who lives near Changjian Square. "Now I can see the kitchen environment of the delivery restaurants and know whether it's clean. I feel much more at ease ordering delivery from here in the future," Mr. Zhang said.
Customer trust has translated into tangible orders. A Xinjiang-style fried rice noodle shop opened in March this year, and its owner, Sun Chengcheng, was previously a delivery rider. "Some student customers came to the shop specifically to see it, and felt it was clean and reassuring to eat here," he told the reporter. After the environment improved, business also picked up, and he now receives two to three thousand orders per month. After the entire concentrated area was brought under standardized operation, the daily order volume increased by 30%.
Offline renovation has been matched by online supervision improvements. In Yangzhou, 5,064 online catering merchants have been connected to the "Internet + AI (artificial intelligence) supervision" platform, which identifies problems such as smoking in kitchens and uncovered trash bins, sends alerts to local supervisory personnel, and forms a closed loop of verification, rectification, and re-checking.
Since the beginning of this year, Yangzhou has rectified 14,643 online catering problems and taken 1,157 problematic online merchants offline. Third-party surveys show that public satisfaction with the food safety of online catering has risen from 72.33% last year to 93.87%.
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Jiangsu Promotes Whole-Chain Governance of Online Catering Food Safety
Since the beginning of this year, Jiangsu has made the governance of online catering food safety problems a key project in the concentrated rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, launching a "Hundred-Day Offensive" campaign. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission and the Provincial Market Supervision Administration formed a "dual task force" to jointly conduct unannounced inspections of concentrated delivery processing areas, and problems found were simultaneously assigned to local discipline inspection and supervisory organs and functional departments, urging rectification and accountability. The market supervision, public security, and health departments coordinated and collaborated to tackle problems such as "ghost delivery" and qualification fraud. As of now, the province's market supervision system has investigated and dealt with more than 41,000 illegal cases, ordered 59,700 businesses to make corrections, and complaints and reports about online catering have decreased by nearly 10% quarter-on-quarter.
While investigating illegal operations, authorities simultaneously delved into problems such as supervisory dereliction of duty and benefit transfers. Discipline inspection and supervisory organs at all levels in Jiangsu sorted through leads such as abnormal administrative penalty records, concentrated complaints, and long-unresolved reports, promoting the integration of administrative law enforcement with criminal justice and disciplinary supervision. Departments across the province investigated 100 criminal cases involving forged health certificates, arrested 420 people, and pursued the benefit chains behind qualification fraud. Some criminal gang members numbered as many as 52, spanning 20 provinces and 45 cities.
To hold the gateway to online platforms, through administrative guidance, admonishing talks, and full data comparison, authorities urged platforms to verify merchant qualifications and improve the "no dine-in" and "transparent kitchen" labels, taking a total of more than 36,000 non-compliant merchants offline.
To strengthen daily supervision, Jiangsu this year promoted nearly 100,000 delivery merchants to newly connect to the "Internet + Transparent Kitchen" system, and further relied on "Internet + AI supervision" to strengthen non-site inspections. The province also hired 12,000 delivery riders as "mobile sentinels" to identify hidden dangers through methods such as "snap-and-report," and has verified and handled 2,867 problem leads reported by riders.
In response to weak management links in concentrated delivery areas, Jiangsu issued work guidelines, promoted the development of 80 delivery-only concentrated areas, and improved institutional regulations around platform compliance, health certificate verification, and food safety process control, solidifying effective practices from the rectification into routine management requirements.
(Compiled and organized by Bai Guangdi, reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 史一棋
Party spirit is the cornerstone upon which Party members and officials establish themselves, build their careers, articulate their words, and cultivate their virtue. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persisting in the Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," reviewed and adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, states that strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Starting today, this section launches the "Series of Discussions on Cultivating Party Spirit," and we invite your continued attention.
—Editor
Recently, the author heard the story of the Battle of Huangyangjie in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi. With the main forces of the Red Army away, the garrison force left in Jinggangshan was less than one battalion, and many soldiers had only a few bullets each. Facing an attack by four enemy regiments, they were nonetheless able to achieve winning a victory against superior forces (以少胜多, yi shao duo sheng - "use, few, defeat, many").
What did they rely on to win? At that time, they relied not only on weapons and the like, but even more on conviction — the ideal and conviction of certain victory for the revolution.
Ideals and convictions are the "calcium" in the spirit of Communists. When the "calcium" is sufficient, the bones are strong, one dares to wage unyielding struggle, and one can hold up the backbone of the nation.
As time passes, the ideals and convictions of Communists remain steadfast and firm. Deep in the mountains, Zhang Guimei, dragging her ailing body, has sent batch after batch of girls out of the mountains, saying: "As long as I have a breath left, I will stand on the podium." On the front line of poverty alleviation, Huang Wenxiu froze her youth at the age of 30; her village residency diary records:"Without total victory, we will never withdraw." In the Galwan Valley, 18-year-old Chen Xiangrong wrote "Pure love, only for China," and left his life on the Karakoram... Their posts differ, their ages differ, but all of them merged the "small self" into the "greater self," always steadfast in their ideals and convictions.
Some may ask: now that conditions are better, is it still necessary to supplement "calcium"? Prolonged periods of peace and stability (承平易久, cheng ping yi jiu - "enjoy, peace, easy, long") can easily erode fighting spirit and dilute the original aspiration. Notices of violations of discipline and law issued by discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels often include the item "loss of ideals and convictions." Each such notice is a warning bell. Supplementing "calcium" in the spirit is not something that can be done in a very short period of time (一朝一夕, yi zhao yi xi - "one, morning, one, evening"); it must be done regularly and continuously.
The firmness of ideals and convictions comes from the firmness of thought and theory.
In 1920, Chen Wangdao, while translating the Communist Manifesto, mistakenly ate ink paste yet still found it sweet. Why? Because that was the taste of truth.
The reason why the Communist Party of China can succeed, and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good, ultimately lies in the fact that Marxism works, and that Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times works. Turning our gaze to the present, to walk well the new Long March, we must unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and forge the spirit. Only by laying a solid theoretical foundation can conviction be as solid as a rock (坚如磐石, jian ru pan shi - "firm, like, rock, stone").
Whether ideals and convictions are firm needs to be tested in practice.
Overcoming three world-class technical difficulties in the construction of provincial water-saving ship locks, building the world's most complex water conveyance corridor system, and constructing the nation's first full-life-cycle smart canal... In building the Pinglu Canal, a "project of the century," Party members and officials took the lead in charging forward, gnawing through many "hard bones." One important factor enabling them to do so was their constant bearing in mind of the "greatest concerns of the nation." Ideals and convictions have never lain in grandiose declarations, but are embodied in the practice of overcoming difficult problems and challenges (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, key, overcome, difficulty"), and are continuously tempered in practice.
"Once the fire of ideals and convictions is ignited, it will never be extinguished." On the new journey, if we continue to consolidate the foundation of faith, supplement the "calcium" of the spirit, and steady the helm of thought, we will surely be always victorious in every endeavor (无往不胜, wu wang bu sheng - "no, go, not, win"), and our cause will surely make steady progress to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far").
Return to TopThe model numbers and purchase dates of the agricultural machinery in multiple subsidy applications were highly similar, yet during on-site visits, the farmers who had purchased the machinery were speaking vaguely and unclearly (语焉不详, yu yan bu xiang - "speech, indistinct, not, detailed") and made contradictory statements or actions (前后矛盾, qian hou mu dun - "front, back, contradict") about the model and price of their own "machinery"... Officials of the Fengyang County Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervisory Commission in Anhui Province discovered anomalies while verifying agricultural machinery subsidy application materials.
The investigation found that Wang, former head of the Agricultural Machinery Management Service Station in Zongpu Township, Fengyang County, first had an associate open an agricultural machinery dealership, with Wang himself operating behind the scenes as the actual controller. The store repeatedly organized villagers to come and make fictitious purchases of agricultural machinery, used to issue invoices, thereby applying for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies.
Under relevant local regulations, the disbursement of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies must be verified on site, and verification personnel may only randomly select villagers applying for subsidies on the day of verification. However, Wang, taking advantage of his position, obtained the list of villagers applying for subsidies in advance. He then had unsold agricultural machinery temporarily moved to the verification site in advance, and induced villagers to cooperate, creating the illusion of compliant verification, ultimately successfully defrauding agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and pocketing them.
"I thought that hiding behind the scenes would keep me from being found out; now I feel deep regret that cannot be undone (追悔莫及, zhui hui mo ji - "chase, regret, no, reach")." Faced with irrefutable evidence, Wang ultimately bowed his head.
In the end, Wang was dismissed from public office, and his suspected criminal conduct was referred to the procuratorial organ for legal review and prosecution.
[Commentary from the discipline enforcers] The Wang case exposes loopholes in the field of disbursement of subsidies benefiting the people. Taking this case as a lesson, we must strictly enforce the regulations prohibiting public officials from engaging in related business activities, while also exploring the introduction of independent third-party verification, cross-regional mutual verification, technology-empowered supervision, and other measures, so that "shadow agricultural machinery" has nowhere to hide, and ensuring that policies benefiting farmers truly benefit farmers.
(Compiled and edited by Meng Xiangfu, reporter of People's Daily)
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The sky had not yet fully brightened when the Xiaoheyan Morning Market in Shenhe District, Shenyang, Liaoning, was already "awake."
Nearly 500 stalls lined up in sequence along a 390-meter-long street. The "sizzle" of youtiao frying in oil, the hawking cries of vendors, the clamor of bargaining — all kinds of sounds mingled together and rushed at visitors along with the rising steam.
Amid the flow of people, several "red vests" wearing Communist Party member badges stood out brightly.
"Brother Xiaoman, is your scale accurate today? Have you prepared enough small change?"
"Don't worry, I calibrate it every day." Yu Man, the vendor of "Yu Xiaoman's Lvdagunr," smiled and held up his scale pan for display.
The "red vests" came from the Xiaoheyan Morning Market Party Branch. Their busy footsteps followed the needs of vendors and citizens: checking measuring scales one by one; reminding vendors to arrange their goods properly; maintaining market order...
Rewind to 2023. "With its authentic northeastern flavor and honest prices, the Xiaoheyan Morning Market went viral online, transforming from a 'vegetable basket' for local neighbors into a 'check-in spot' for tourists, with an average daily customer volume exceeding ten thousand." Tian Meng, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wanlian Subdistrict, said that new challenges also followed — tourists dragging luggage had nowhere to store it, complaints about shortchanging or providing insufficient quantities (缺斤少两, que jin shao liang - "lack, weight, few, amount") occurred from time to time, and vendors occasionally had frictions with one another.
To respond promptly to new demands and properly handle new problems, in May 2024, Shenyang's first morning market Party branch — the Xiaoheyan Morning Market Party Branch of Xiannongtan Community, Wanlian Subdistrict — was formally established, linking the subdistrict, public security, market regulation, volunteers, and other forces in joint governance. The bustling market now had a Party position within it.
"The morning market is so nice to browse, but it would be even better if there were a place to store luggage," a non-local netizen suggested on a social platform not long after the Party branch was established.
"We'll arrange it!" The Party branch acted quickly, setting aside an area in the tourist service center for luggage storage. Today, this place not only stores luggage but also offers a place to rest, a cup of hot water, and phone charging — it has become a "transfer station" for out-of-town tourists.
The Party branch set up message boards at three service stations in the Xiaoheyan Morning Market, collecting an average of more than 200 suggestions and opinions per month. "We accept 'fault-finding' and immediately 'heed advice.' Party members take the lead in handling the demands of citizens and tourists, ensuring feedback, rectification, follow-up, and accountability." Hu Xuesong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xiannongtan Community, said.
"Shared bikes parked chaotically" — dedicated parking areas were marked out and volunteers were arranged to provide guidance; "too long a wait to use the restroom" — six vendors were negotiated with to open their restrooms to the public free of charge; "no place for delivery riders to rest" — a love station opened its doors to guests, with air conditioning, water dispensers, and microwave ovens — having everything one needs (一应俱全, yi ying ju quan - "one, all, possess, complete")...
"We have implemented a handling mechanism of '1-hour response, 24-hour processing, and feedback within 3 days.' The complaint rate for market issues has dropped significantly, and satisfaction with demand handling has increased by nearly 30%." Hu Xuesong said.
To safeguard fair transactions, a fair scale is placed at each of the market's east and west ends. "We issued 'A Letter to All Vendors,' advocating operating with integrity and honesty (诚信经营, cheng xin jing ying - "honest, trust, manage, operate") and warm, thoughtful service, and we also evaluate 'Model Vendors Learning from Lei Feng' every quarter. Once the mobile red banner is hung, it's a great honor." Liu Jun, Director of the Wanlian Subdistrict Administrative Office, said that in the past two years, more than ten thousand customers have re-weighed their purchases, and no shortchanging has been found.
The dough sheet is spread out, the filling is smoothed on, then rolled, pressed, and cut into segments — a soft lvdagunr takes shape. Yu Man, 44, has been rooted at the Xiaoheyan Morning Market for more than five years, and with his small stall, his life has grown steadily more secure.
"The Party branch helps everyone solve problems, and Party-member operators step forward when issues arise — everyone sees this." Last year, Yu Man submitted an application for Party membership to the Party branch. "I want to be like them too, to do my part and keep this warm spirit of the morning market alive."
"In recent years, we have focused on discovering and cultivating Party membership applicants among the vendors. In two years, we have developed one Party member, cultivated three Party membership applicants, and 35 vendors have submitted applications for Party membership." Xia Wei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shenhe District Party Committee and Head of the Organization Department, said.
As they spoke, the sun rose higher, and seven or eight o'clock in the morning was exactly the busiest time at the morning market. The "red vests" moved through the bustling crowd like clusters of leaping flames.
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Lu Xun, as an important frame of reference, is still posing questions to us. And the way to answer them lies nowhere else—it is in the pen, in creation, in the new paths trodden underfoot.
The name of Lu Xun has never departed from the spiritual life of the Chinese people.
This autumn, events commemorating the 145th anniversary of Lu Xun's birth and the 90th anniversary of his death have been held one after another. The Lu Xun Literary Editions Museum opened in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; the "Lu Xun and Fine Arts" exhibition was displayed at the National Art Museum of China; academic symposiums saw spirited discussion; commemorative essays appear from time to time... The words Lu Xun wrote in the final years of his life—"Forget me, and manage your own lives"—have not been honored. On the contrary, it is precisely in "managing their own lives" that people time and again think of Lu Xun and encounter him anew.
Is that not so? "The 'Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk' I could not understand as a child, I finally understand now" has made it onto online trending searches; "Kong Yiji's long gown—to take it off or not" has sparked heated social debate; "Cast off the chill air, just keep moving upward, and pay no heed to the talk of those who are losing all hope and giving up on oneself (自暴自弃, zi bao zi qi - "self, abandon, self, abandon")" has been written by young people into their social media signature lines.
But citing Lu Xun cannot replace reading Lu Xun; Lu Xun's quotable lines do not represent Lu Xun's literature either; beyond the man and his deeds, what we need to revisit again and again is also his thought and his spirit. When that beam of light from Lu Xun shines over, it helps us see clearly the depths of life and of thought. How to draw nourishment from Lu Xun and forge literary and artistic classics for our era—this task is still far from complete.
Let us begin with an interesting topic: if Lu Xun were alive today, how would he view the new mass literature and art? Three events that took place in the last year of Lu Xun's life may hold revelations.
On October 8, 1936, at Baxianqiao in Shanghai, on the last day of the National Woodcut Traveling Exhibition, Lu Xun came. Although over the previous nine months he had been gravely ill, his weight at one point dropping to less than 40 kilograms, that day he was in high spirits and talked freely for three hours. That classic photograph of Lu Xun sitting in a circle with young woodcut artists was taken there.
Eleven days later, Lu Xun passed away. Nine months later, the War of Resistance broke out in full, and the young woodcut artists, carrying their engraving knives, rushed to the battlefield.
The reason Lu Xun went to such lengths—leaving no effort unspent (不遗余力, bu yi yu li - "not, leave, surplus, strength")—to introduce and support woodcut art was, to a large extent, because of the mass character of the woodcut art form. A single engraving knife, simple and convenient, could yet give voice to new sounds, reach the common people, and transform the spirit of the nation. In his eyes, this was "the art of new youth," "the good art of the masses."
Back then, because the masses were illiterate, there was the limitation that one could only create for the masses but could not let the masses speak for themselves. That limitation has now been completely broken. The art of youth and the art of the masses are a rising and surging trend (风起潮涌, feng qi chao yong - "wind, rise; tide, surge") with boundless vitality. But at such a time, we must not forget the other reason Lu Xun championed woodcut: the beauty of simplicity and vigor. He always held toward literature and art the expectation of "uttering the most sincere voice, to lead us to goodness, beauty, and vigor." Being new alone is not enough; it must also be good, sincere, and possessed of goodness, beauty, and vigor. "Catering and flattering will never benefit the masses"—this admonition Lu Xun issued nearly 100 years ago still carries heavy weight for today's new mass literature and art.
Still in 1936, Lu Xun wrote a preface for the posthumous poetry manuscript "The Child's Pagoda" by Bai Mang, one of the five martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers, saying that "The Child's Pagoda" did not seek to compete with ordinary poets for a day's supremacy, but possessed "a different kind of significance." "This is the faint light of the East, the whistling arrow in the forest, the sprout at winter's end, the first step of the advance, the great banner of love for the forerunners, and also the monument of hatred for the destroyers."
Toward the small circles of literati who confine themselves to a limited scope (画地为牢, hua di wei lao - "draw, ground, as, prison"), Lu Xun had never offered encouragement. In his view, this "whistling arrow in the forest" need not be compared with those polished and refined works; it belonged to "another world." His own creative work was no different. Although China's vernacular fiction began with Lu Xun and also matured with Lu Xun, in his struggle with reality he had neither the time nor the energy to brew polished works, and he did not even write a single full-length novel. He devoted immense effort to writing essays, which, dagger-like in their brevity, sharpness, and keenness, were published in newspapers and periodicals, serving as a "record kept for the record" of reality. Lu Xun said that rather than hiding in the palace of art to eat buttered bread with Shakespeare, he preferred this kind of writing—it was "the scar of one who toils and lives amid wind and sand."
This year, the Poetry Prize of the Ninth Lu Xun Literature Prize was awarded to Wang Jibing, a delivery rider poet, which is like an echo of writing from "another world." It shows us that poetry tempered with feet on the earth, facing the wind and frost of reality, in engaging in close-quarters combat (短兵相接, duan bing xiang jie - "short, weapon, mutually, connect") with life, such literature has broader space and can also possess more powerful spiritual expression.
Still in 1936, upon learning from foreign friend Agnes Smedley of the latest developments of the Red Army, Lu Xun was very pleased. Together with Mao Dun, he sent a telegram of congratulations to the Red Army, praising its struggle as "the most glorious page in the history of the liberation of the Chinese nation."
Though merely a man who wrote with a pen, what Lu Xun was constantly thinking about (念兹在兹, nian zi zai zi - "think, this, at, at") was always the future and destiny of the nation. Even amid the heavy blockade of the Kuomintang, he still keenly grasped the trends of the times and discerned the major realities that would profoundly affect the nation's destiny. Lu Xun always admired those figures who were the backbone of the nation, and what we cherish is likewise a kind of quest that can hold up the backbone of the nation, and a literature and art that can bear the backbone of the nation.
"Literature and art are the fire emitted by the national spirit, and at the same time the lamp that guides the future of the national spirit." In an era of tremendous change, facing the tide of technology, these words of Lu Xun still provoke deep thought. From the whistling arrow in the forest to the lamp of the future, literature and art carry great expectations.
How to be truly present in one's own era, how to forge literary and artistic forms belonging to this era through the tempering of reality, how to "keep a record for the record" of the present world of life and the world of the soul? Lu Xun, as an important frame of reference, is still posing questions to us. And the way to answer them lies nowhere else—it is in the pen, in creation, in the new paths trodden underfoot.
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Since its release, Sanxingdui: Future Past, the first domestic AI (artificial intelligence) theatrical film, has performed poorly at the box office, and the focus of audience criticism has also been concentrated: it looks AI-generated at a glance, lacks a sense of living people, and shows off technique more than content. The reasons for its failure concern not only the quality of one film but also reflect more universal challenges and problems in AI creation, and therefore deserve discussion.
From AI short videos and AI short dramas to AI films, the boundaries of film and television creation are being continuously expanded by new technologies. In particular, since the beginning of this year, more than 10,000 AI comic dramas have been launched online in China every month, which means that the marginal cost of accessing AI spectacle has approached zero. This has thus given rise to a fatal question: when AI is almost infinitely available and readily available (唾手可得, tuou shou ke de - "saliva, hand, can, get") on mobile phones, why would audiences still buy tickets to go to cinemas to watch AI films?
Or let us ask a different question: today, when audiences spend dozens of yuan on a movie ticket, what exactly do they expect? There are many answers, but in essence, it is a period of time that cannot be paused. The AI spectacle freely available on phones can be paused, sped up, or swiped away at any moment; cinemas are exactly the opposite — exiting comes at a cost. When audiences walk into a cinema, they are in fact assuming a certain risk, and the film must compensate with a unique experience. This compensation is a temporal structure that "only holds when watched continuously": every frame builds momentum for the subsequent plot, the foreshadowing laid earlier is cashed in at the ending, and audiences can fully enjoy the structural progression of a narrative (起承转合, qi cheng zhuan he - "rise, undertake, turn, combine") of the entire story.
Sanxingdui: Future Past, however, has brought the logic of short dramas into the theatrical circuit. The production team previously made a 13-episode AI short drama, Sanxingdui: Future Revelation, which was launched free on platforms two years ago and received considerable viewership across the internet. According to the creators' introduction, this film also first generated a large number of images and then worked backward to derive part of the story. This is clearly not the production logic of a feature film. With images taking precedence, the underlying logic is flawed from the start; the images lack meaningful connections between them, and therefore the story is not told well. Netizens sharply pointed out that it is "like several different group assignments stitched together."
The deeper problem lies in the fact that the film went through several years from project approval to release, and the speed of revisions could not keep up with the speed of AI technology iteration. In particular, AI has already raised audiences' aesthetic threshold. For big-budget films that previously spent enormous sums building physical sets, audiences now subconsciously feel that AI "can do the same." When technological spectacle becomes commonplace, the true ceiling of AI films points to the parts AI cannot do — script, performance, emotion, judgment. In the end, the ceiling of humans determines the ceiling of AI.
Placing Sanxingdui: Future Past in the broader context of this year, its experience is not an isolated case. Some AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content) works bearing the label of "first" also attracted attention at the start of their broadcast, but after airing they were not quite meeting expectations (并不尽如人意, bing bu jin ru ren yi - "not, entirely, enter, person, will"). Of course, the failure of individual works does not mean that the path of AI film and television is unviable. In the long run, first there is low cost, then enough attempts, and then good works are screened out — AIGC will expand the capacity of the entire audiovisual industry. Ultimately, AI should be a paintbrush that empowers imagination, not a gimmick that masks hollow content. Letting technology truly serve the artistic essence and moving people through emotion (以情动人, yi qing dong ren - "use, emotion, move, person") is the only way to create.
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Not long ago, the legal-industry drama Flourishing and Prospering (蒸蒸日上) aired its finale, with comment sections and bullet comments flooded with "down-to-earth" and "moved." Audiences accompanied the protagonist as she resolved one legal dispute after another concerning the interests of ordinary people, empathizing with that professional pride of realizing one's self-worth despite lacking high salaries and fame.
As the title cleverly ties into the theme, the work uses a law firm located above a public bathhouse as its main story space, and protagonist Xiao Longnü's "grassroots law firm" is, being true to one's reputation (名副其实, ming fu qi shi - "name, match, actual, reality"), situated in an environment "steeped" in the smoke of everyday life. In previous legal-industry dramas, protagonists mostly exuded an elite temperament, with refined attire, polished speech, and comings and goings at prestigious law firms in skyscrapers, handling major corporations and big cases. By contrast, Xiao Longnü dresses in casual style, drinks straight from the bottle, rides an electric scooter, lives in a cramped old and shabby apartment, counts small vendors as her law firm's neighbors, takes on financial, marital, and medical lawsuits for salaried workers, and frequently provides aid to low-income vulnerable groups. This character design—outwardly relaxed yet inwardly righteous—allows audiences to empathize more readily, and through these grassroots "small cases," to feel the power of law as the cornerstone of maintaining social fairness and justice.
The series demonstrates a conscious awareness of humanistic care while also not shying away from controversial areas in legal practice. There is a clash of philosophies between prestigious law firms that value reputation and profit and the micro law firm that speaks for the vulnerable. Xiao Longnü's career choice to actively distance herself from the towers and take root in the marketplace highlights the idealistic sentiment that "the lawyer's sword must be wielded for those without shields," yet the work's theme does not favor either side, avoiding the substitution of performing acts of chivalry and justice (行侠仗义, xing xia zhang yi - "act, knight-errant, uphold, righteousness") for legal procedure.
Another major feature of Flourishing and Prospering lies in the integration of regional flavor and comedic elements. Industry dramas habitually use first-tier metropolises as their story settings, but this series instead turns its gaze to the old industrial base of the Northeast—like a "Brother Hu" suddenly appearing among a crowd of "Andys." The main characters' handling of dialect, folk customs, local traditions, and everyday life atmosphere is fairly authentic, with details everywhere connected to the factory-district social landscape that has persisted since the transition period. The characters are vividly drawn—rash and tough yet warm and loyal, forthright and spirited yet witty in speech... Some viewers have remarked that the Northeast comedy universe has "invaded" the industry-drama track. Although a few comedic moments still feel somewhat forced, and narrative tightness is somewhat affected, for audiences weary of elite-temperament industry dramas, it is genuinely refreshing and novel (耳目一新, er mu yi xin - "ear, eye, one, new").
Looking back at film and television history, the "downward shift" of industry dramas may be an inevitability. The narrative model of mainland industry dramas (legal dramas, medical dramas, etc.) was influenced in its early development by similar series from Hong Kong and overseas regions, emphasizing the portrayal of professionalized, elite modern career experiences. However, as homogeneous series have multiplied, genre innovation is imperative and must be done (势在必行, shi zai bi xing - "trend, exist, must, go"), and this year's changes have been especially pronounced. Besides Flourishing and Prospering, the recently popular Small Town Remedies (小城良方) also serves as an "alleyway industry drama," turning its gaze to grassroots professionals in non-first-tier cities and portraying those ordinary yet inspiring lives—good lawyers and good doctors exist not only in gleaming high-rises but are also scattered throughout the smoke-filled streets and alleys, contributing to people's lives through professional competence. Adding a measure of warmth and depth drawn from real life to industry stories that carry both professional pride and social concern is a promising creative path.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China)
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Among the repertoire of Hebei Clapper Opera, the significance of Zhong Kui goes without saying. As early as the 1980s, playwright Fang Chen broke free from the limitations of the traditional single-act Zhong Kui Marries Off His Sister, tracing the complete life trajectory of Zhong Kui from his journey as a commoner to take the imperial examination to his apotheosis and marrying off his sister. Through Pei Yanling's attaining a high level of perfection or consummate skill (炉火纯青, lu huo chun qing - "stove, fire, pure, green") performance, this grand production became a sensation in Beijing and Tianjin. Later, the second generation (Wu Guiyun) and third generation (Hao Shichao) "Zhong Kui" continued the legacy, keeping this classic—which once won the First National Award for Outstanding Repertoire—performing frequently without decline.
More than 40 years later, in response to the shifting aesthetic context of contemporary audiences, the Hebei Hebei Clapper Opera Theater has meticulously crafted an innovative version of Zhong Kui. While preserving the spiritual core of the original work, the innovative version restructures the stage rhythm, employs modern audiovisual means to expand the freehand boundaries of traditional opera, and brings together four Plum Blossom Award winners in a joint performance. It has been welcomed by both new and old audiences, sparked lively online discussion, attracted many young viewers, and become a hot production on the contemporary opera stage.
The cast of "four Plum Blossom winners on one stage" provides solid backing for this grand production and reveals the lineage of theatrical tradition passed down through generations. Wu Guiyun and Hao Shichao, master and disciple, jointly take on the role of Zhong Kui, complementing each other in civil and martial styles. Wu Guiyun excels in civil plays, with dense and full vocal phrasing, portraying the scholar Zhong Kui's indignation and the elder brother's tenderness and forbearance with extremely penetrating or vivid (入木三分, ru mu san fen - "enter, wood, three, parts") detail. Hao Shichao, with a solid foundation in martial roles, integrates the performance approaches of young scholar, martial, and painted-face roles; his movements and postures are sharp and forceful, his highly difficult techniques clean and crisp, conveying Zhong Kui's awe-inspiring divine majesty after his apotheosis. Sun Na plays Zhong Meiying, using soft and delicate singing and well-measured acting to portray the orphaned, sensible, and deeply sibling-loving younger sister with genuine moving effect. Qiu Ruide plays Xu Boqun, with a steady and composed stage presence and mellow singing, lending weight to the court confrontation scenes. The ensemble choreography maintains a proper balance between tension and relaxation (张弛有度, zhang chi you du - "stretch, relax, have, limit"), and the ghost soldiers' movements and combat sequences are tight and crisp, revealing the full martial arts prowess of the entire troupe.
For a classic opera to endure over time, its musical foundation is crucial. When the original was created, the creators did not simply copy existing banqiang patterns but, grounded in traditional Hebei Clapper Opera qupai, distilled a signature musical motif that runs through the entire production. "Arriving at the door of home, the courtyard is so desolate and cold; I want to call out, but fear my sister will be startled." After his apotheosis, Zhong Kui's first act is not to assume his post but to worry about his orphaned sister, standing outside the family door, afraid to knock, lest his fearsome appearance frighten his loved ones. This aria, with its plain lyrics and plaintive, mournful melody, combines operatic flavor with the lyrical qualities of an art song, becoming a representative aria of the genre. The new version fully preserves these core musical passages; the orchestration serves the characters' emotions, and the somber depth of the clapper opera's bitter tones and the surging intensity of the flowing-water meter remain the primary drivers of dramatic emotion.
The most immediately visible change in the new version lies in the moderate intervention of modern stage technology. The opening uses imagery from Wuqiang New Year prints to introduce the story in flashback; the "cave encounter" scene integrates special effects and props to evoke the peril of the ghost lair; in the courtyard examination scene where Zhong Kui dashes against a pillar in martyrdom, gauze-screen projection combined with lighting and sound effects concretizes the scene of the soul ascending; the segment of escorting the sister to marriage incorporates traditional magic tricks, adding folk flavor to the wedding pageantry. Devices such as wire work and dynamic projection do not let the guest overshadow the host (喧宾夺主, xuan bin duo zhu - "noisy, guest, seize, master"); they are mostly used to supplement fantastical scenes that the freehand nature of traditional opera cannot directly present. The closing backdrop displays folk images of Zhong Kui from various regions, expanding the stage character into a cultural symbol shared by the nation, with a strong sense of ritual.
Dazzling visual presentation is merely a door-opener; what truly moves the audience is ultimately the people behind the spectacle—Zhong Kui's maintaining integrity and refusing to compromise even under pressure (宁折不弯, ning zhe bu wan - "rather, break, not, bend") moral fiber, and the familial affection and loyalty that transcend life and death. The innovative version of Zhong Kui both respects the performance legacy left by senior artists, preserving the generous and tragic temperament of Hebei Clapper Opera, and employs modes of expression better suited to contemporary theatrical aesthetics, allowing the ancient legend of Zhong Kui and this clapper opera work, honed through more than four decades of stage experience, to continue striking a chord in the hearts of today's audiences.
(The author is the editor-in-chief of Chinese Theatre)
Return to TopIn the early morning of November 5, 1911, within the city of Hangzhou, revolutionary forces and feudal forces stood in tense confrontation. To protect the lives of the entire city's populace, Tang Shouqian stepped forward to take action (挺身而出, ting shen er chu - "rise up, emerge"), becoming the key figure in the peaceful resolution of the Banner garrison issue. The documentary Tang Shouqian 1911 opens with this scene, using AIGC (AI-Generated Content) to recreate the events of that time. The lighting, the figures, and the mood are all right, yet viewers cannot help but wonder: can such images truly be trusted?
The work's response to this begins with a clear delineation of the boundaries of technological use. The entire film constructs its narrative framework through three parts: presentation of historical materials, expert interpretation, and live-action filming. From the writing of Dangerous Words, to the Railway Protection Movement, to the restoration of Hangzhou, AI (artificial intelligence) is responsible for recreating historical scenes that cannot be filmed live, helping viewers concretely perceive Tang Shouqian's choices and sense of responsibility. Secondly, within those boundaries, it polishes details that can withstand scrutiny. The portrayal of Tang Shouqian's character is highly authentic, with vivid skin texture, natural and reasonable movements, and costumes and artifacts that have all been verified through textual research.
Looking at the film as a whole, in the creation of historical documentaries, AI can serve as an auxiliary tool, but historical materials remain the source. Whether one holds reverence for history and whether the expression is rigorous — these remain the keys to winning the trust of viewers.
(Xu Ding, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province)
Return to TopThe wave of technology surges forward, and the creative vitality of TV series is bursting forth. At the recently held 2026 China Radio and Television Excellent Works Creation Conference TV Series (Web Series) Forum, industry insiders engaged in heated discussion on the topic of "building a creation-friendly ecosystem," offering suggestions and insights for producing excellent works, cultivating talent, and advancing the high-quality development of the film and television industry. This page excerpts some of the viewpoints for the benefit of readers.
—Editor
New technologies give good works greater vitality
At present, the TV series industry has reached a critical point. New technologies allow immature creative ideas to be tested and validated, and also give good works a richer and longer-lasting life. AI presents in advance films that exist only in words and imagination; it does not judge for us, but rather enables our judgments to be made earlier and on more concrete grounds. The rapid growth of AI short dramas is a signal that new forms such as AI long dramas and interactive traffic-driving will emerge one after another, and works can face users more directly, with the boundaries between them and games, cultural tourism, and derivative products also opening up.
—Hou Hongliang (President of the China Television Drama Production Industry Association, Chairman of Daylight Entertainment)
The revenue-sharing model unleashes original creativity
Long-term IP operation will give rise to a new round of explosive growth in original content. The revenue-sharing model has restructured the risk-reward structure. Relying on mid-length dramas and AI dramas—content carriers with controllable costs and flexible cycles—creators can use a lightweight approach to first test original works in the market, and then proceed with subsequent series development. In the future, the market may present a stratified landscape: leading IPs that have already proven themselves and gained user recognition will continue serialized, long-and-short-form integrated development, while the vast mid-tier track will be left to a flood of new creative stories, further unleashing the industry's original creativity.
—Wang Xiaohui (Chief Content Officer of iQIYI)
We must draw people into the creative atmosphere
At the root of every good drama is a group of people who refuse to settle. The production team must draw people into the creative atmosphere, so that everyone carries the drama in their hearts. When the atmosphere is right, people at every link will gradually find their own state and bring out their best, rather than tending only to one's own immediate interests (各扫门前雪, ge sao men qian xue - "each, sweep, front, door, snow"). Whether a production team's ecosystem is good or not comes down to this.
—Ren Shuangyou (Chief Producer of the TV series "The Protagonist")
Face up to public-opinion governance
Today, a work faces not only aesthetic judgment, but also the social emotions touched by the issues it raises. Therefore, public-opinion governance cannot be ignored. In the discussions triggered by a work, one must distinguish between opinions, problems, emotions, and malicious manipulation. The purpose of governance is to give genuine voices room for expression, to bring objective problems into the correction mechanism, and to subject malicious behavior to the constraints of rules.
—Liang Zhenhua (Professor, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University)
Grasp "spectacle" with the left hand, grasp "empathy" with the right
AIGC has lowered the production threshold, which for the content industry means grasping "spectacle" with the left hand and "empathy" with the right. It is not only about providing audiences with novelty, but more importantly about building deep emotional connections with audiences through digital assets such as characters. The fact that audiences are constantly thinking about (念念不忘, nian nian bu wang - "continually, not, forget") classic characters shows that characters are truly worth preserving and will be preserved. A "living entity" evolved from a character can be regarded as an emotional asset.
—Chen Shuze (Film and television producer)
Consolidate systematic support for going global
For domestic dramas to go global and regularly enter the cultural lives of overseas audiences, a complete ecosystem of support is needed. First, internationalize talent cultivation, requiring composite talent who understand both Chinese content and overseas markets. Second, align production standards with international needs, not relying on novelty to make up for industrial gaps. Third, deeply understand the aesthetic habits of overseas audiences and study the tastes of viewers in different markets—not to pander, but to achieve the best fit while preserving the Chinese cultural foundation.
—Liu Tao (Producer of the TV series "Pursuing Jade")
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